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DEGIN THE NEW YEAR NIGHT Virginia State Library THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXXV, NO. 9 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1910 THE BAPTISTS' NEW YEAR PRAYER O Thou Creator of all creation, Maker of all mankind, Ruler in righteousness. As we attempt with becoming reference and gully fear to approach thy gracious, throne, turn us not away; for thou art all of our trust. We realize that "men ought to always pray and not to faint." We thank thee for allowing us to live another year which now lies good in the cemetery of ages and for bringing us into a New Year with its blessings, privileges and opportunities. And may we as a race and denomination strive to improve under these divine advantages. Lord teach us how to pray. "Father, we fear that many of our troubles trials and persecutions are due to neglect in prayer. Lord, bless our friends and foes, everywhere. We pray for our country with its President, his cabinet and all the civil and political leaders, of our government. Bless our soldiers in the camps and on the fields. Thou Mighty Warrior, be thou the General in this wonderful war and give victory in defense of truth, justice, right censure, universal democracy. Oh! wrench from the greedy jaws of this awful conflict glory to God and good to men. Oh hasten the day when justice, equity and fair play will be the fortune of all mankind, recordless of race, color or condition. Then, Lord, thy word will be accepted as the universal standard by which all human conduct, creeds and opinions will be tried. Holy Father, bless the twelve millions who are refused, denied and sorely desuised by many of their fellow countrymen. Now Lord, do then have mercy up on the colorado Baptist denomination. This denomination that would believe the whole Bible but fails to practice some of it. Lord, our ranks are being invaded by the common enemies, envy, pride, jealousy and hatred and the spirit of bos sism. Oh Lord, drive these foes from our territory and help us as a race and as a denomination to honor, respect and love one another, even though we may not see things just alike. Help us to do more constructive and less destructive work, this year than in some years of the past. Lord, bless the colored news papers of our country and enable their editors to realize that stupendous powers are for good or bad. In proportion to the way they are manned, Lord, bless all of our leaders, and help them to know that if they all succeed in killing each other, the peo ple will be left as sheep without sheep herds. For also all the leaders will be dead. Do Lord, call a halt. Do Lord, remember the Virginia Baptist State Convention. Thou hast given this body a splendid history, for which we thank thee from the depths of our hearts. Bless the official staff of this body. May they be men of strength courage and convictions. And may they live, move and act upon those convictions and leave the results with thee. We pray for a great meeting in Zion Baptist church, Newport News, Va. May 8-12, 1918. May the Battle cry $7,000 seven thousand be realized and even exceeded. And we pray that the spirit of peace, unity, feeling and affection may pervade every heart and be manifest on every tongue, as in the years of the golden past. Lord bless our fathers in the gospel, help them to lead in that way that the sots may never need feel ashamed of them. And finally when life's story in told and her song sung, take all of thy children unto yourself, o whom be story, for ever and ever, Amen. Colored Baptists of the United States of America. N. B. It is hoped that all Baptist pastors will lead this prayer in their pulpits, at one service and have their congregation renew the same. C. B. of the U. S. of A. Announcement. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Evans, of Lynchburg, Virginia, announce the marriage of their daughter, Natalie Battice to Mr. James D. Robinson December 31, 1974, at Richmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson will reside at 516 South Ada Street, Petersburg, Va. Bureka Company Meeting. The annual election of the officers of Eureka Company, No. 1, U. R. K. of P. will take place at its regular meeting Thursday night, January 17. All officers and Sir Knights are requested to be present. By order of Capt. George L. Branch company commander. LAWYER HEWIN APPEALS FOR BETTER ACOMMODATION ON RAILWAY TRAINS. 613 A. N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Virginia, December 22, 1917. The State Corporation Commission, State Capitol Building, City. Gentlemen: On Saturday, the 15th of this month, I boarded a train in the City of Lynchburg, Virginia, leaving that place at 4:15 P. M. for South Boston, Virginia. This line is what is commonly known as the "Lynchburg and Durham Line" of the Norfolk and Western Railway. I was a passenger in the coach set apart for colored people. A servant of the Union News Company came into the coach and made four colored passengers who had bought their tickets get up and took possession of two seats for the purpose of arranging his books, papers, magazines and fruit. It was a pittable sight, indeed, to see a colored woman standing in the aisle with her babe in her arms, although she had bought and paid for her ticket, while this vendor of fruit, papers, and magazines, had the entire use of four seats in the coach. I am filling this complaint for the purpose of ascertaining if this is a proper construction of the law which provides for the separation of the white and coated passengers in this State. Is there any proviso which allows the Union News Company to make colored passengers who have bought and paid for their seats to get up for its servants for the purpose of vending his goods and magazines in their coach? Please let me hear from you. Respectfully yours, J. THOMAS HEWIN. 241 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA State Corporation (Commission Richmond, December 26, 1917. J. Thomas Hewin, Attorney at Law, 613 A North 2nd Street, Richmond, Virginia. Dear Sir: This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter of December the 22nd, and to advise you that the matter is being brought to the attention of the Commission. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA Department of State Corporation Commission Richmond, Dec. 29, 1917, cecr. Mr. J. Thomas Hewin, 613-A North 2nd Street, Richmond, Virginia. Dear Sr: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 22nd instant with reference to alleged discountous treatment accorded four colored passengers on the Lynchburg and Durham Line of the Norfolk and Western Railway, Saturday, Dec. 15th, 1917. This matter will at once be taken up with the management of the Rail- way Company and you will be further advised as early as possible. Yours truly, WM, P' RHEA, Commissioner. In Memoriam. In memoriam of my dear wife and mother, Mrs. Alice Smith Brown, who departed this life January 9, 1917. She was a faithful wife and a kind and affectionate mother; a Sunday School and Church worker seeking all tones to help the poor and needy. She was loved by all the people of the Sunday School, church and convictions for her advice and patience. Gone but not forgotten. Her husband and daughter, Rev. N. B. Brown, pastor Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., and ang. Mrs. Amie Brown Campbell In Memoriam New York, N. Y., January 2—In loving memory of my dear dear, Mrs Jennie Hawkins Johnson, who died January 2, 1917, 1:30 A. M. I often think of her, so dear, deep within my heart. But. Thou art gone, my precious darling, Never more canst thou return, Thou shall sleep a peaceful slumber Till the Resurrection Morn; Then beyond this vale of sorrow, We'll awake, from every care; In a city bright eternal, And its joys we'll ever share, We shall meet to part, no never, bive and bye. In that home beyond the sky. By her niece. CARRIE B. MONTAGUE. Mrs. J. F. Noble of Rutland, Vermont is in the city. Miss India Shelton, of 519 North Adams street is indisposed. DR. ASA W. CHAMBERLAIN CONVICTED. Goochland Courthouso, Va., January S. Dr. Asa W. Chamberlain was today convicted of the murder of his brother, Judge Albert P. Chamberlain and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State Pentonium. Motion for an appeal has been entered by counsel for the convicted. The verdict came this morning, after the jury, sitting up in the case since last Wednesday morning, had deliberated only forty-eight minutes. Court convened at 9 o'clock. Argument had been completed Monday night. Final instructions were given by Judge John Rutnerioord and the jury retired at 9:27. At 10:15 the jury re-entered and Foreman Noah C. Lippy announced that a verdict had been reached. A hush settled over the half-filed little courtroom in which counsel for State and defense had fought a thrilling sixty-day battle. The tired little wife of too accused man, and his sweet-faced little daughter, who had come across the continent to comfort him, sat beside Dr. Chamberlain when the jury entered. Neither they nor the doctor showed emotion when the verdict was read by Peter Miller, clerk of the court. The death penalty was expected by most of Goochland's people, but because of the advanced age and the formality general satisfaction is expressed that his punishment is not to be so severe. BROUGHT TO RICHMOND ON WAY TO PRISON Immediately after the verdict was rendered Dr. Chamberlain was returned to Goochland jail. He went with the same stocium marveled at by all who have witnessed his demeanor during the trial just closed. His wife and daughter accompanied him to the cell, in which he remained until this afternoon when he was carried to Richmond and committed to Heurlejo Jail by Sheriff John Massie. He will remain there pending the outcome of his counsel's motion for appeal. The murder of which Dr. Chamberlain stands convoluted occurred near Three Squares, in Goochland County, Monday night, October 22. It is believed to have been committed at the home of Judge Chamberlain, with whom the convicted man had unrearled over the outcome of an arbitration proceeding, in which the judge was awarded a sum much greater than his brother thought due him for his alleged half interest in personal proper tax on Sunnside Farm. The doctor owned the farm. It was proven that he had sent his brother there from Des Moines Iowa in order that he might have a home after he had. It is alleged been made homeless through divorce proceedings instituted by his wife. Dr. Chamberlain in sixty-three years old. Judge Chamberlain was sixty-four. After the judge had lived two years at Sunnyside the doctor came with a young bride to take up his residence. The judge feared that he might not be permitted to live there always under the then existing agreement. He asked his brother to deed him half interest in the property. This was refused. The arbitration proceeding followed. The doctor gave the judge a note for the sum agreed upon by the arbitrators. CLAIMS TO HAVE PAID DEBT LAST NIGHT JUDGE WAS SEEN ALIVE. The doctor contends that he paid his brother the amount of the note at the latter's home on the night of October 22. It was on this night that the judge was lost seen alive. The next day his neighbor's missed him. Two days later the doctor was arrested on suspicion. He then told the same tale that he still sticks to—that he palp his brother Monday night, and that immediately thereafter his broth or announced his intended departure at once for Choyenne, Wyo. Three days after the doctor's arrest Sunday October 29, Judge Chamberlain's body, dismembered and decapitated was found buried under posts of a fence in the yard of Dr. Chamberlain's home. Subsequent search disclosed the judge's watch and strong box secreted in the attic of that home. A bloodstained and an over an arm jacket upon which was sticking a little burr, called a "beggar house" covered with blood, and a tiny speech of flesh were also discovered in an out building. Bloodstains were found on the floor and stairway. These discoveries led to the theory that the doctor had killed his brother when he went to pay the note brought the body to his own home and there carved and disarticulated it as it was found. It was on this theory that the State worked for conviction of the accused. The culmination of that work came in the life sentence this morning pronounced. COUNSEL HAVE WORKED HARD FOR HIS ACQUITTAL Dr. Chamberlain's counsel, James C. Page and Conway R. Sads worked hard for his acquittal. It is not probable that more earnest work was ever done for an accused murderer in Virginia. They worked on the ory that some other person had done the murder and left only evidence that would point to the accused as the guilty man. They aroused doubt in the minds of many and probably saved the doctor from the electric chair. The State was never fairer to an accused man than it has been with Dr. Chamberlain, David H. Leake, acting Commonwealth's attorney, and his associates, showed the defence every courtesy and permitted it to introduce any evidence it desired without objection. So impressed was Mrs. Clara Oxford, the doctor's daughter, with the fairness of Mr. Leake that she shook his hand at the conclusion of his argument Monday afternoon. Even the terrific Wendbure was moved to pity sometimes during the trial and refrained from pressing the case unnecessarily hard. DOCTOR TESTIFIES. IN FIGHT FOR LUE. Holds Up Murdered Brother as an Ingrate Who Betrayed Him in Iowa. For Three Hours Accused Man Reviews Life Before Goochland Jury. Goochland, Va., January 11.—Picturing the brother of whose murder he is accused as an inmate he betrayed him after accepting his assistance in many times of adversity, Dr. Asa W. Chamberlain, on the stand in his own defense, for nearly three hours this afternoon calmly reviewed the relations between himself, and that brother, Judge Albert P. Cham伯灵 from their early childhood to the time of the murder, which was exposed by the finding of the judge's dismembered body beneath fence posts in the back yard of the doctor's home late in October. There was no bitterness in the doctor's recitation of the alleged wrongs he suffered at the hands of his brother. The jury was evidently impressed by his demeanor. Certainly spectators became more sympathetic. Off forceful personality, his enunciation crisp and particularly Western, he talked plainly and with few fallers. Beginning with the time when he and Albert, as he called his brother, were children on an Iowa farm, he passed rapidly over their school years, spent together until he left the Iowa Agricultural College after two years there to take up the study of medicine. His brother completed the course while he was studying at the Louisville Medical College. Later the brother began reading law, getting license to practice about the time he graduated in medicine, in 1876. JUDGE DEFEATED FOR OFFICE IN DES MOINES Albert Chamberlain located in Des Moines and enjoyed a lucrative practice for many years Dr. Chan beclain set up an office at Stratford a few miles away. He visited his brother often. The doctor prospered in a small way, although adversity visited him sometimes, once necessitating bankruppage. Again fire destroyed a drug store in which he had established a profitable business. However, late in life, according to him, he was able to help his brother, to whom fate was beginning to be unkind. The home life of the judge became complicated. Divorce proceedings ensued. He lost his property. The doctor helped him. Surgical operations for a golfer on the judge's neck were advised by physicians. The doctor brother carried him to the Mayo brothers and paid the expense of an operation while he stayed beside him. After the hospital experience, the judge ran for office in Des Moines. He was defeated. Then he wanted to leave the Stage. The doctor too thought he himself had reached the stage in life when he was entitled to a home in a pleasant clime. He bought "Sunnyside Farm," the place which plays so big a part in this trial. To this he invited his brother. The judge however had his eyes on Florida and bees. The doctor advanced him money to go to Florida where he bought a small place which subsequently proved unsatisfactory. From Florida the judge returned to Stratford. The doctor renewed his invitation to "Sunnyside." The Judge accepted. The doctor bought two mutes two horses and household goods and equipment and employed a young man to come with the judge to Virginia. The judge was to have half of the income from the farm and was to have a home there at long as he wanted it. During the two years the judge made his home there before Dr. Chamberlain came with his young bride the doctor sent him much money for expenses—even supplied him with postage stamps. A statement from a Stratford bank was shown to prove that the doctor really sent drafts to his brother and they came to a goodly sum. Often the doctor said he gave his brother money when he came to the farm. All went well between the brothers until Dr. Chamberlain came with his wife. Then the judge seemed to fear that he was not to enjoy his old privileges. He asked the doctor to deed him half interest in the farm. This was refused, the doctor said, because he did not want to fix it so the judge's son would inherit the property. He hid, however, offer to build a separate home for the judge he said, when his brother informed him that he wanted to marry. The doctor said his brother was angered by his refusal. They quarred. Albert wanted arbitrators called to settle their differences, he claiming that he was due something for the work he had done and his own money that had been spent on the farm. The doctor agreed. The arbitrators allowed his brother $1,446. He thought this too much. Ensuing unpleasantness resulted in the brother's departure from his home. In the meantime the doctor had (Continued on Page 1.) BANK STOCKHOLDERS MEET Harmonious Session on at the Pythian Castle—President Mitchell Makes Report—Presentation Made to the Presiding Officer. The Stockholders of the Mechanics Savings Bank met last Tuesday night at 8:30 o'clock for the purpose of hearing reports and electing Directors for the ensuing year. President John Mitchell, Jr., presided, being assisted by Director E. R. Jefferson. After prayer by Mrs. Kate S. Thomas Mr. Leroy E. Rangland called the roll. Assistant Caskier Albert V. Norrrell, Jr. read a fine report. He was followed by President John Mitchell Jr. The gross deposits for the year were $42,000,000. He reviewed the financial situation and war conditions. The Christmas Savings Club membership during the past year was 7,976, with total deposits of $75,900. At the conclusion of the report, it was adopted by a rising vote. Rev. Scott C. Burrell, D. D., on behalf of a delegation of stockholders presented Mr. Mitchell with an imported broochelle robe and alpins. The following Directors were elected for the ensuing year. John Mitchell, Jr., T. M. Crump, John T. Taylor, E. R. Jefferson, A. A. Tenant, R. W. Whiting, A. D. Price, J. Carter and J. Mercer G. Ramsey. The body adjourned with benediction by Rev. Dr. Burrell. RESIGNED Rev. W. H. Stokes wishes the public to know that he is no longer connected with The Smallwood Memorial Institute, Claremont, Va., having tendered its resignation as a member of the Board of Trustees of the smallwood Memorial Institute last month. ANNUAL ELKS' MINSTRELS Will give a performance at The True Reformer's Hall Monday night January 14th, 1915 assisted by some of the best local talent of the city. Watch for the grand street parade Comedians; Fred Morris, Phil Hilton, Goo, Johnson; H, Dean, Goo, Dawson, L, E. V. Eggleston, Singer; John Burnett, B, F, Dean, P, John son, Robert Lewis, S, L, Minor, Joe Price, Jacob Allen. Doors open 8 o'clock, Performance 8:30, Admission, 25, 35 and 50 cents, Chas, G. Smith, Musical Director, Samuel Holmes, Secretary, Stewart Minor, Manager. Remember, those thirteen Colored soldiers hung at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, met their tragic end because they dared to resent an insult offered to and an assault made on a Colored woman, and the forty-one seet to prison for life found guilty of mutiny also dared to take into their own hands the defense of their race, and then resolve to help provide relief for their sorrowing and dependent families. Our race loyalty is now at stake. Those thirteen hung were; Sergt, Wm, C. Nesbit, Corbisport Lawson Brown, James Wheatley, Jesse Moore, Charles W. Battimore; Privae Ira R. Davis, William Breckenridge, Thomas C. Hawkins, Carlos Snodgrass, James Divine; Frank Johnson, Riley W. Young and Pat McWhorter. Washington, Jan. 7.—Mrs. Gerrula Young widow of Private Riley Young, one of the Colored soldiers recently executed, has written the National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee asking for help. Because those mea-died for the race, and because the late Sergeant Baltimore met his tragic fate as a result of defending a Colored woman against Insult, the Committee's anxious that the race respond quickly to the appeal for funds to enable it to begin relief work. Mr. Frank Redd, 505 North Third street, is connected to his bed. Miss Frenche, O. King has returned to the city after a ten day's visit in Northern cities. —Mrs. R. N. Patterson formerly of South Richmond but now of New York spent the Christmas holidays here visiting relatives and friends. She also visited The Planet Office accompanied by Mrs. Ella Johnson and Mrs. Martha Johnson. The popular Mr. E. H. Courtney had the misfortune to fall down the stems at his sister's residence on Leigh Street, and break his rib. He is much improved. —Misses Indiana and Jessie Bunson have returned from a week's visit to their relatives at Moseley's Junction, Va., at which time a delightful entertainment was given in honor of them by Mrs. Hattie Haaskins, of Winterpock, Va. PRICE. FIVE CENTS THE NEGRO RACE MUST STAND FIRM P. O. Box, 198, Pratt, City, Ala. January 4th, 1948 Ion, John Mitchell, Jr. Editor. The Richmond Planet. Richmond, Virginia. Dear Sir, I have read with marked interest "A New Year Greeting," by Dr. E. C. M. Morris; also "Gulily" by the Indianapolis, Ind. Freeman; in your paper of December 29th, 1917. There was a time that the Negro Preacher was the leader of his race, but that time has passed. Many of them are unable to lead their Churches to say nothing of church Organizations. His voice is no longer heard, in marshaling the forces of these millions of black men. He might as well stop pleading to the White Man. If the "Freeman" feels quite sure those dead men and the imprisoned ones had no thought of the great wrong they were doing," why let me say she is just behind the times and does not know her race. This young Black race will not stand the faults, injustice, and wrong doings heaped upon them by the white man as our old father's did even though he be a United States soldier, seaman or citizen. They will resent it in the meanest way and meet death in the sweet spirit (not fearing, crying and pleading for mercy), but by singing God's praises and informing the world "I am not dying for Uncle Sam but for God." The spirit of Gabriel and Jack Bowler, Jonathan Vesey; Not a true; and John Brown is not dead; it is still smuggling in the souls of millions of black sons of this race and these low mean men by a white men will soon fan it in a flame that will burn to the lowest hell and the highest heaven if these injustices keep on; I thank God that the race is no longer adhering to the words "As a race you must love your leaders"; but we are looking for a leader who will stop loving the white man and love his own race. We have never had one, while these leaders, Press and Pulpit have fall, the race is looking unto God and by his spirit He will not only make this nartion tremble but all nations who hate deceive and unjustly destroy their brothers. I am one black man who is not cherishing better hope for the race after this war, but only the worst and I am not alone; God forbid that I should hold my peace and live happy at the price of my race toil, blood, and life. Yours for my race and praying that God give us the spirit to do his will. REV. THEODORE HAWKINS, Pastor Lively Hope Baptist's Church Pratt City, Ala. A USEFUL INVENTION Mr. William Noel Johnson of Minnesota Manitoba, Canada, has invented a most useful device known as a vehicle license number exhibitor. It keeps the license number plainly displayed and is so arranged as to be of no inconvenience when not in actual use. The patent is for sale. In Memoriam. In memory of my dear old sainted mother, who departed this life two years ago, January 12, 1916: Dearest Mother, then hast left us. And we thy loss deeply feel, But 't's God who hath bereft us. He can all our sorrows heal. W. H. ISHAM AND FAMILY. GREAT UNION MEETING RELE The Richmond Sunday School Union of the Virginia Baptist State Sunday School Convention met at the Thirty-first Street Baptist Church, last Sunday evening. The Church was filled with an interested audience and an exceedingly interesting program was rendered by talent from Zion, Second Baptist (Southside), Fifth Street and Thirty-first Street and Trinity Sunday Schools. The collection was good. Revs. R. C. Williams, J. C. Carrington and T. J. King were present and made remarks. President E. J. Cunn'ngham presided. Thirty-first Street School won the Banner with Zion a close second. The next meeting will be held with Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School, the first Sunday in February, 3:30 o'clock. WANTED—A first-class binotype operator. Apply The Planet, 311 North 4th Street, Richmond, Va. ok & AER STEN ESSA SSCA RRR 7s $ oy CM WG LBA Wy o— . NR eV ON soos ee C2 gt, ef hi ce rs TN ees Go cy: <r 8 3°25 ae 2 Ck See op oe ee t= $i eos Be aN = es ae ro So. oN oy re $88 sot) a ee BS JF fg. — oy “bite be t= & Se RCC QC? 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And" may wo as a race and denoml- nation strive to improve under these diving advantages. Lord teach us how to pray. “Fath. or, Wo foar that anany of our troubles trials and persecutions are duo to neg ect in prayer. Tord, bless ‘our frienda and toes, vevorywhere, We pray for our country with tts President, nis cabinet and all the evil and politteal leaders. of Our government. Bless our soldiers in the camps and on tho fields. "Thow Mighty Warrior, ho thou the General in this worderful war and give vle- tory in dofenso of truth, Justieo, right eottsnesa, unlvorsnt democracy. Oh! wrench from the greedy Jaws of (hls awful confiiet glory to God and good to men. Oh hasten the day when Jus tico, equity and fatr-play wlll bo the fortuno of all mankind, rexardiesa of race, color or condit{on. ‘Thon, Lord, thy Word will bo accepted as the unt. versal standard by whteh all tnman conduct, ereeds and opinions will bo tried. Holy Fathor, blosy tho twelve mite Lone acho aro Fafusad, dentad and sore Iy deanised by many of thelr fellow jountrymen, Now Lord, do thou thavo merey up on tho colorea aptist donomination. ‘This denomination that would be: Hove the wholo Bible but fats to prac ce somo of it. Lord, our ranks are being Invade by tho common onemies, envy, pride, Joat ousy and hatred and the spirit of bos sism. Oh Tord drive these foes from our territory and help ts asa race and asya denomination (0 honor, te- aport ‘and love ono. another, evon though wo may not seo things just allio. Help us to do more construe: tivo and less destructive work, this year than In somo years of tho past. Lord, bless tho colored news papers of our’ country and cnablo thelr edt. tore to realize that stupendous pow: era they are for cord ot bad, In pro portion to tho way they are mannod. Lord, bless all of or leaders and help ‘them to knpw that if they all seeoed In Keiing each other, the woo plo will be Toft as sheen without -shep Herds, For alas all tho Teaders will bo ont. Do Lord, call a halt, Do Lord, remember the Virginia Baptist. Stale Convention. ‘Thou hast given Unis body a splendtd history, for which wo thank theo, fron the depths of our hearts. Bless tho oftl- cial staff of this body. May they ho mon of strength.conrago and convle- Hons, And may they Ive, move and Act usion ‘these convictions end leave the results with theo. We pray for & great mecting in Zion Taptist church, Nownort Nows. Va. May & 12, 1918, May tho Battie cry—$7,000 00' seven thousand ho realized and oven excordeil. And wo pray that the spirit of peace, unity, feoling ard affection may ‘pervade overy hoart fang bo manifest on every tongue, as in'tho years of the golden past. Lord lesa our fathers in the gospel, help them to lead in that way that tho sons may never need feel ashamed of them. And finally when ifo's story in told and her song sung, (ako all of thy children unto thyself, 0 whom bo glory, for over ang ever, Amen. Colored Raplists “of tho Untied States of America, N.T. Tt ts hoped that all Baptist pastors will Toad thiis prayer In Urelr Dulplts, at one service and have thelr aongreration repeat the samo. G.B. of tho U.S. of A Announcement. 7 Mr, and Mrs, J, B, Evans, of Lyneh- urs, Virgin‘a, announco ‘the —mar- Tingo of their daughter, Natalle Bat- tice to Mr. James D. Robinson. Decom bor 31. 1917. xt Richmond, Va, Mr, and Mrs. Robinson will reside at 616 South Adams Street, Petersburg, Va. Mureka Company Moeting, ‘Tho annual election of the officers of Buroka Company, No. 1, U. Ry K. of P. will tako placo at its rog- ular meeting ‘Thursday night, Jan- wary 17, All officors and Sir Knights are requested to bo present, By order of Capt. George L. Branch @ompany eommander, LAWYER WEWIN APPEALS FoI » BBYTER ACCOMMODATION ON RAILWAY 'PRALNS. GI3-A N. 2nd Street, Wehmond, Virginia, Devetner 22, 1917. ‘Tho Stato Corporation Commlsslon, Stato Capitol Building, City. Gontiemen: On “Saturday, tho 16th of this month, T boarded a train in the City of Lynchburg, Virginia, teaving that Dlaco at 4:15°P. M. for South Boston, Virghula, “This tino Ig what ts. com moily Known us the “Lynchburg ad Durham Line" of the "Norfolk and Western Railway. I was a passenger In the coach set apart for colored people. A servant ‘of tie Union Noes Company. camo I to tho coach and made fone colored ‘passengers who had bought thott Uckots Ket up and took possesston. of (wo seats for che purpose of arrani nig his Hooks, papers, inagazines. aid fruit, “TC was’ a pitable sight, inet, {0 800 colored woman standing In tho aisle with her babo- tn her arnis atthough sho Inad howht. and patd for hor ticket, while Lily vendor. ot rut, papers, any magazines, had. the entire uso of toute weats nthe coach, 1 am filing this complanie. for. the Purpose of ascertaining If this is 4g Proper construction of the law which Provides for tho soparation of the Whito and colored. passengers In this Stato. “Is thoro any proviso _ wittch allows io Unlon Nowa Compatty’ to Mako colored pnssongors who have bought and patd for thelr goats. to sot up for ita gorvants for tha. pur- oso of vondirig is goods and maga- zines in thelr coach? Pleaso let me hear from yon, | Respeetfiity yours, : “J. THOMAS HEWIN. COMMONWRALTIE OF yIRGINTA Stato Comporattdaaowaptenton Richmond, Deeoihbet 26, 1917, J. ‘Thomas Towin, AttoMey-at-LAw, GIZ-A North 2nd ‘Street, Richmond, Virginia, Doar Sirs Ate: This. 18 to gcknowledgo recoint. of your ‘ottor of December the. Bend, and to ndviso you that tho matter I hong browght (0 ta nlontion of tho Commtaston Vary truly yours, RN WILSON, Clerk of tho Commigaton, COMMONWRATITIT OF VIRGINTA Department of tho Stato Corporation Commtaston Richmond, Nee, 29, 1917, ever. Mr. 4. Thomas Hovin, GLKA North 2nd. Strcot, Rlehmond, Virginia. Doar Sit: T beg {o-acknowledgo recoipt of your Totter of the 22nd instant with Feferenco. to “alleged. dineotrteous treatment accorded. four eotored. pas sonkera on tho Lynchburg and. Dur ham Tino of the Norfotie and’ Western Rallway. Saturday. Doe. Isth, 191, ‘This matter whi at onea bo taken up with tho management of tho Tall way Company and. you will bo. fur tier advised. ng oatly ‘as posstblo. Yours truly, Wat, i rIpA, ‘Commlastoner. fw ifeinotiams In memoriam of my dear wifo and mother, Mrs. Alico Smith Brown, who departed this lifo January 9, "1917. Sho was a faithful ‘wifo and a kind and affectionate mother; a Sunday School and Church worker seoking at all t'mes to help the poor and neody. Sho was loved by all tho people of the Sunday School, church and convon- tons for her advico and patience. Gone but not forgotten, \ Her tushand and daughter, Rey. N. B. Brown, pastor Rising Mt. Zlon Baptist Chureh, Richmond, Va., and Mrs, Annto Brown Campbell. Tn Memortam. Now York. N. ¥., January 2—In loving memory of my dear aunt, Mrs Jennie Hawk'ng Johnson, who’ dled January 2, 1917, 1:30 A.M. T often think of hor, so dear, doop within my heart. But, ‘Thow art ono, my precious darling, Nover more canst thow return. ‘Thou shall sleop a peacoful slumber "PHL tho Resurrection Morn: ‘Then beyond thia valo of sorrow, We'll awakg from every caro; In a elty bright otornal, And {ts Joys we'll ovor sharo, Wo shall mect to part, no never, Thye and byo, In that home boyond tho sky. By her nieco, CARRIN B. MONTAGUR. Mra, J. . Noblo of Rutland, ‘Ver- mont fg in tho city. ‘Miss India Shelton, of 619 North ‘Adame street’ is indisposed. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12,1918. BROTHER.--CUT UP THE BODY. DR. ASA W. CHAMBERLAIN CONVICTED. Tried to Destroy Evidercess Jury Recommends Mercy-:Gruesome Recital7-People Astounded Both at the Crime and the Verdicts:Will Not Go to the Electric Chair. Goochland Courthouse, Va., Jan ary 8.—-Dr. Asn W. Chambertatn was today convicted of (ho murder of nis brother, Judge — Atbort P. Chambortain and sentonced to fe imprigotiment In tho State Penttontt- ary. Motion for an appeal has boon onyerod by counsel for the convictod. ‘rho verdtet camo this morning, after the jury, siting up in tae case tinea Jast Wednesday morning, had Goubersted “only forty-eight ‘mia Utes Court convened ay 9 o'clock. Asgument hag been completed Mon- Gay might. Sinal Instructions were xiven by Judgo John Kutnerfoord and tho jury retired at 9:27. At 10:16 the jury reontered and Foreman Noalt C. Lippy announced that a_ verdict hag boon reached. A hush settled over (no half filed iittle courtroom in which counsel for Stato and dofenso had fought @ thrilling siy-day battle, ‘Tho Ured Little wife of to accus- cd oman, and his sweet-faced ttle Aanghter, who had como across tho continent to comfort him, sat be- side Dr. Chamberlain when the jury entered,” Neither they nor the doctor showed ‘emotion when tho verdict was read by Peter Miller, clork of tho court. ‘Tho death penalty was expected by most of Goochland’s people, but be- cause of the advanced ago’ and Yo- formity gencral satisfaction is ox, pressod that his punishment 18 not to bo no sovero, BROUGHT YO RICTIMOND ON WAY 'TO PRISON Immediately after tho verdict was renderey Dr. Chamberlain was Fe: turned ‘to Goochland jail. Ho went wut tho samo atocism marveled at by all who have witnessed his demeanor during Hho trial Just closed. lla wito ang daughter accompantod him to tha coll, In whleh he rematned until this afternoon when ho was carried to Richmond and committer to Henrico Jail by Sheritt John Masato, Ho will romain there pending the outcome of Rls counsel's motton for appeal. ‘Tho murder of which Dr. Chamber Inin stands convieted occurred moat ‘Threo Squares, tn Goochiang County, Monday night, October 22. Tt ty bo: Hevod to have eon committed at the homo of Judge Chambariain, — with whom tho convicted man had quarrel- ed over tho ontcome of an arbitration proceoding, In which the Judgo was awarded a eum much greater than his brother thought duo him for hls al- Joged half Interest In personal proper ty on Sunnyside Farm, ‘The doctor own od tho farm, TL was proven that _he had sent his brother thero from Dos Moines Towa in order that Le might havo a homo after ho hind, it ts al- Aeged eon made homeless through di vorea proceedings instituted by his wife. Dr. Chamberlain in sixty-three years old. Judgo Chamberiain was sixty-four, Aftor the Judo, kad tved two years at Sunnysldo the qoctor came with a young bride to tako up his rosidonco. ‘Tho: judgo fonrod that he might not ho perm'tred to lve thero always under tho then existing agreement. To asked his brother to Goo) im half Interost In. the propor- ty, ‘This was refused, ‘Tho arbitra- ton procoeding followod... The doc- tor gave tho Judgo a note for the sum agreog upon by tho arbitrators. CLAIMS TO TAYE PATD DEnT LAST NIGHT JUNG WAS SEEN ALIVE. ‘Tho doctor contends that he pald his brother tho amount of the note. at the tntter’s homo on the night of Oo. tohor 22. Tt was on this néght that the 4ndgo was Inst xeon alivo, ‘The noxt Gay his neighbor's missed him. Two Gays Inter the doctor was. atrontod fon suspicion. Te then tola the same tale that he still sticks to—that he bald his brother Monday night, and that Immediately thereaster his’ broth or announced his Intended doparcure at onco for Choyenno, Wyo. ‘Three days after the qoctor's arrest Sunday etober 29, Judgo Chamber- lain's body, dismombered and eecapt- tated was ‘found buried under posta of a fenco tn tho yard of Dr. Chambor Inin’s home. Subsequent search dis elosod tho judge's watch and strong box secreted in tho, aitle of that homo. A. bloodstained.;2-" aya an ovor aN Jacket upon whey wai sticking fn Hite burr, calted a “beggar louse’ covered with blood, and a tiny speck of flesh woro also discovered Iman ont bullding. Bloodstains wore found on tho floor and stairway. ‘Thoso discoveries lod to the theory that the doctor had killed his broth- er when ho wont to pay the note, brought the body to hls own homo. and there carved and disarticutated It aa It was found. Tt was on this tho. ory that tho Stato worked for convie tion of the accused. ‘Tho culmination of that work camo In tho Ifo son- tenee tis morning pronounced COUNSEL, AVE WarKED HARD FOR HIS ACQUITTAL, Dr. Chamberlain's counsel, James ©, Pago and Conway 3, Snds work od hard for hts acquitiat. It ts not probable that moro enrnest work was over dono for an accused murderer in Virginia. ‘They worked on tho the ory Uhat somo other parson had ‘dono tho murder and loft only evidence that would potnt to tho accused ae tho guilty man. ‘Thoy aroused doubt In tho minds of many ‘and probably saved tho doctor from tho olectrie chair. ‘Tho Stato was nover fatror to an accused man than tt has been with Dr. Chamberiain, David TI. Laake, acting Commonwealth's attornoy, and Ma nssoclates showed "the defense every, courtesy and permitted It to introduce any evidenco tt desired Without objection. Sq impressed was Mra. Clara’ Axford tho. doctor's Gaughter, with the fatness of Mr. Leake that she shook hls hand at tho eomelusion of his argumont Monday afternoon. Fven the terrific Wonden. bure was moved to pity semotimes during tho (rial and rofraned from prosaing tho caso unnecessarily hard. . DOCTOR TESTIFIFS IN FIGHT FOR TIFR. Holds Up Murdered Brothor as an Tngrato Who Retrayed Tim in Towa. For Threo Hours Accused Man Ro- Views Life Before Goochiand Jury. Goochland. Va., Jannary 4.—Pletnr- ing tho brother “of whose murder he fs necused as an Ingrato who hotrayed him after accopting his asalstance In many times of adversity. Dr. Asa W. Chamberlain, on tho stand In his own dofonso, for nearly three hours this afternoon calmly roviewed tho re: Intions botween himself, and that brother, Judo Albert 'P. Cham beriain trom thelr ‘onrly chiidhood to the time of the murder, which waa ox Posed by tho finding ‘of the Judge's dismembered body” beneath foneo Posts in tho back yard of tho doctor's homo lato in Octoher. ‘There was no bitterness in tho doc tor’s recitation of tho alleged wrongs ho sufforeg at tho hands of his broth or. ‘The Jury was ovidontly Impress- ed by his demoanor. Certainly specta- tora heeame more sympathetle. Of forcetul personality, his onunciation crisp and peculiarly’ Western. he talk cil plainly and with few falters, Tie- ginning with tho t!me when he and Albert. as he called his brother, wore children on an Town farm, tho pass- ed rapidly over thetr school yoars, apont together until he lett the hlowa Agricultural College after two years there to tako up tho study of meii- cine. “His brother completed the course white ho was studying at the Loutsvillo Medical College, Later tho brother began roading Jaw, getting Heonso to practico about the time he graduated in melicino, in 1876. JUDGE DEFEATED FoR OFFICE IN DES MOINES. Albert Chamboriain located in Dos Moines ang onjoyed a lucrative prac: {ico for many years. Dr. Chamberlain sot up an offico at Stratford a fow milos away, Ho visited hls brother of- ton, ‘The doctor prospered ina small way, although adversity visited him sometimes, onco necessitating bank. Tuptey, Again fire destroyed a drug storo in which he had established a Profitable business. However, lato In Mfo, ‘according to him, ho was ablo to help his brother, to ‘whom fate was beginning to ho unkind, ‘Tho home lif of tho Judgo becaino complicated, Di. Yoreo proceedings onsued, Io lost his property. ‘The doctor holed him. Sur Bleal operations for q goiter on” the Indgo's neck wero advised by phyal. clans. ‘The doctor brother carried him lo tho Mayo brothers and patd the exponso of an operation while he stayed beside him, Aftor tho hospital experienco, the Judgo ran for offico In Des Molinos, Ho ‘was dofeated. ‘Thon ho wanted to Jeavo tho Stato. ‘Pho doctor “too thought ho himself had reached the stage In Iife when ho was ontitled to a homo tn a plesant climo. Ho bought “Sunnyside Farm," the place which plays 90 big a part in thls trial. "To thls ho tnvited his brother. ‘The Juige howover had Ils eyes on Florida and bees. ‘Tho doctor advanced him money to go to Florida where he Bought a smal placo when subse. quently “proved unsatisfactory. OPTEN GAVE MONEY To ASSIST INS BROTHER, From Florida the judgo returned to Stratford. ‘The doctor renowed his in vitation to “Sunnyside.” "The Judgo accepted. ‘Tho doctor hought two mute €5 two horses and household goods and equipment and employed a young man to como with tho Judgo to Vir- Rina, ‘The Jude was to have halt of tho incomo trom tho farm and was to have home thero as long as he want ed st. During the two years the Judo mado h's homo thera before Dr. Chamberiain enme with hls young bride the doctor sent him much mon: ey for expenses—even supplied him With postage stamps, A statement ‘from a Stratford hank was shown to Prove that tho doctor really sont drafts to his brother and they camo toa goodly sum. Often the doctor said ho gave his brother money when hé camo to the farm, All wont well hotweon tho brothers until Dr. Chamberiain camo with his Wifo. Thon the fudge scomed to fear that ho was not to enjoy hls old priv legen, Ho asked tho doctor to decd him halt interest in the farm.” ‘This Was Tofused, the doctor sald, becauso ho Aid not want to fix {t so the Judgo'a son would Inher't tho property. Ifo Md, however, offer to build a separ. ato home for the judge.he sald, when MMs brother informed him that he wanted to marry. ‘Tho doctor said hia brother was angered by hls refusal. They quar- roled. Athert wantoil arbitrators. call ‘ed fo sottlo thott differonces. he latin Ing that ho was duo something for the work he had done and his own money that had been apent onthe farm. Tho doctor acreed. ‘Tho arbitra tors allowed his brother $1446, Ho thought thls too much. Rnawing un. Ploasantness resulted in tho broth: ere departure from his home, BELIEVES BROTHER BETRAY- ED TIM IN IOWA COURT. Ti the moantimo tho doctor had (Continued on Page Five) Ca Di CC CASS CONEC AKC I oo AN ets FE SARS ~ a a | ay Le AC FRB, FR HEN AS BV BBB OY CC SSX CERREAK HANG GROOROKOHAS dime Harmontous Sess’on at tho Pythian Castle-—Prea dent Mitchell Makes: Report—Presontation Made to the Presiding, Onticor. Tho Stock-holders of the Mechanics Savings Bank met last ‘Tuesday night At 8:20 oclock for tho purpose of hoaring reports and clecting Diree- tors for the ensuing year, Preaident John Mitchell, Jr., presided, being assisted by Director E.R. Jofterson, After prayer Dy Mrs. Kate §, ‘Thomas Mr. Leroy 1B. Xagland called tho roll, Asslstait Caslyer Albert. V._ Nor-! roll, Jr. read a fine ropert. ito was followed by President John Mitchell Je. ‘Tho Kross deposits for tho year wero $1.200,000, Ho reviowed the financial situation and war conditions, ‘Tho Chr stnas Saving Club membership during the past year was 7,976, with total depos ity of $73,900. At tho conclusion of tho report, it was adopted by a rising vote. Rov, Scott C. Burrell, D. D., on hehalt’ of a detegation of atock: holders presented Mr. Mitchel with an imported brocatello robe and slippers. ‘The following Directors worg elect- ed for tho enswing year, John Mitehell, Jr., T.M. Crump, John. ‘Taylor, B. it. Jeterson, A.A, Ton- nant, RW. Whiting, ALD. Price, J J. Carter and J. Mercer G. Ramsoy’- ‘Tho body adjourned with benediction by Rev. Dr. Burrotl RESIGNED. Rov. W. H. Stokes wishes the public to know thet he ts no longer connected with ‘The Smallwood Me- morial Institute, Claremont, Va.» Raving (enderod' his res'gnation is 4 member of tho Board of Trustoes of tho ‘Smallwood Memor.al Inetituto last month. ANNUAL ELKS' MINSTRELS. Will give a performance at ‘The ‘Truo Reformer's Hail Monday night January 14h, 1918,a8sisted by somo of tho best Iocal talent of the elty. Wateh for the grand street parade. Comedians; Fred Morris, Phil Tilt ton, Geo. "Johnson; 11.’ Dean, Geo. Dawson, L.. V. Eggleston, Singera; John Burnett, B. Dean, P. John son, Robert Lowis, $. L. Slinor, Joo Price, Jacob Allen, Doors open 8 o'clock, Performance 8:20. Admission, 25, 35 and 60 cents, Chas. G. Smith, ‘Musical Director, Samuel Holmes,’ Secretary, Stowart Minor, Manager. Remember, thoso thirteen Colored soldiers hung at Fort Sam Houston, ‘Texas, met thelr tragte end beeanss thoy dared to resent an insult offered to, and an assault made on a Colored woman, and (he forty-ono- sent. to prison for life found guilty of mutiny also dared to take into the!r own hands the defonso of their race, and then resolve to help provide trellef for their sorrowing and dependent families. Our raco loyalty ty now at stake, ‘Those thirteen hung wore: Soret. Wm, C. Nesbit, Corporals Lawson Rrown, James Wheatley, Jesse Mooro, Charles W. Baltimore; Privates Tra R. Davis, Wiliam ’ Breckenridge, ‘Thomas G. Hawkins, Carlos Snod: grass, James Divine, Prank Johnson, Riley W. Young and Pat MeWhorter, Washington, Jan, 7.—Mrs, Gertrud Young widow ‘of Private Riley Young, one of tho Colored solifers recently executed, has written the National Colored ‘Soldiers Comfort Committeo asking for help. Because thoso men died for the raco, and because the lato Sergeant Baltimore met hts tragic fate ag a result of defonding a Colored woman against tnsult, tho Committee s anxious that the race ro- spond quickly to tho appeal for funds to onablo it to begin relict work. Mr. Frank Redd, 505 Norht ‘Thira street, {8 confined to his bed. Miss Frenche 0. King has returned to tho elty ater a ton Way's visit in Northern cities, —Mrs. BR. N. Patterson tormorly of South Richmond but now of New York spent tho Christmas holidays here visiting relatives and friends. Sho also visited Tho Planet Offleo ac: companied by Mrs, Ella Johnson and Mrs, Martha Johnson, ‘Tho popular Mr. KB. Tf, Courtnoy had tho misfortuno to fali down the stens at his sister'n residenco on Taelgh Street, and broak hia rib, Ho is much improved, Misses Tndtang and Jossto tun. fon have returned from a week's visit to the'r rotatives nt Mosolov's June: tion, Va. at which Umea delightful entertainment was given in honor of thom by Mrs, Hattlo Haskins, of Win- terpock, Va, PRICE, FIVE CENTS THE NEGRO RACE MUST STAND FIRM Sauaty Se aAts me Me tanned Pane pear Sir—t have road with marked interest “A Now Year Greeting,” by Dr. B.C, Morr's; also “Guiity" by tho Indiaivanotts, Ina. Preoman:, your Mayer of December 29h 19it, ‘Thero was a time that the Nogro Prenehier wan tho leader of Mle Face, but that dime ha paered. Many-ot then are imable to toad their Churches to say nothing of chren Ornanentonns Mis ‘voleo: is no Tozer weardy in marshaling the forces of these ‘mill- Tone’ of ack mens Wo Might ae Well stop pleading to tio "Whito. Man If the” srrecman fecln auito aura those ead men and tho imprinoned ones had no” Wourht of tho great wrong they wora doing,” why let mo say abe Ie just behind Ue times ind tock Not know her race | Tie youne inek rece wil at stand the insults, {njustice, and Wrong doings heaped pon tvem “by tho white man te ou ot father's dt von though” ho" te 4 Unite Staten ‘soldier, goaman er eltizen. ‘They will Fesont. “fein the. meceneet” Way and meef death in the sweetest spirit {Giot foarte. erving and” pleading for Mercy.) but by singing God's praisos and “Tiforming’ the wornd oT" aaa not dying for Unelo Sam but for God,” Tho spirit of Gnbrtel and Take Dow Jor, Dotnanste Vesoye Nat Lanna gon John Brown te not dead; it ts stil SMuEAING In tho sown of mitiows oF black’ sone of this 'raco_and these lor mean acts by white men will seon fan ie “ina flame that ‘wit! bur oo tho toweat ‘hol! tna tho tighost bees on 1 Ghows nsieea Koen one thank God that tho race is no longer fudherotn to the wore HA gg nee You must lovo your tenderness Aro looking tor a leader who: wileates owing the: white man and Yor sgh own Face, We have never had one, while these leaders, Prose and Putnti “havo tole {ho race tn taking. “unto "God ed by ‘nin spire To wit not ont mens thie nation ‘tromblo. but. att nates Xho ‘hate Wenpino ant unfuatlye ae stray their hrotheray Tam’ one blag man who fs not cherishing better hope for (he ado after this wake bat. oe the worst and T am not alone; God for bd that T should ‘oll my paacg and ive appr at the Drtee of aee aco, toil, Moo, and Whee Yours for my race and praying tint God givo us tho spirit to do his will, RPV. THROPORD HAWKINS, Pastor Lively Hope Baptist Chureh Pratt City, Ala, A USEFUL INVENTION, Mr. William Noel Johnson of Min- nedosn Maniloba, Canada. has ine Vented a most usoful devise known AS & vehicle liconso number exhtbl- tor, Tt keops the Heense mumber Dla'nly disnlyed nd te #0 arranged a3 “to he of no inconvenfenea when Hot in actual use. ‘The patent is for sale. In Memoriam, In mmory of my dear old minted mother, who Weparted thm lite ton Nears ago. Janunry 12, 1916: Dearest Moiler, thon hint lett us, And. wo thy loss deonly fort, But "Us God who hain bereft us, Ho ean all our sorrows hemi WOT. TSITAM AND PAMTEY, GREAT UNION MEETING WEED, ‘Tho Richmond Sunday School Un- Jon of tho Virginia Bapt'st State Sunday Schoo! Convention met at the ‘Thirty-rat. Streot Hapa Churely ast Sunday” evenings The ‘Church was fillod with an Interested audience and_an exceedingly intoronting. pros fram’ was rendored by talent trom Zion, Second Tant'st, (Southside), Fitch Street. and Thirtystrat Street and Tr'nity Sunday Schools. The collection was good. Revs. TR. C. Witttams, J.-C. Carrington wid ‘7 King wero’ present and. ‘mado 70: marks. “Prostdent B. J. Cunn'ngham prosided. “'rhirty-frat Street Sehoot won tho Banner with Zion a olon0 second.” ‘Tho next. meeting will Bo hold with Pitth Street. Baptist Sun: aay School, tho first Sunday m Peds runry, 2:36 o'sioels WANTED—A_ first-elass tnotype operator. Apply ‘The Planet, Bit North 4th Streot, Richmond, “Va, TWO THE SUNET SATURDAY...JANUARY 12, 1918 AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Ends Notable Mid-Year Conference—Delegates present from every section of the Country—31m Crow, Lynching, and other Atrocities heaped upon the Negro Condemned—The negro and the War takes Prominence at the Conference—Oswald G. Villard, Morefield Storey, Col. Charles Young, Dr. W. E. B. DuBals, Mary White Ovington, Col. J. A. Moss, and W. Asble Hawkins among those who speak before Conference—Some of the prominent delegates. Allen's National News Bureau. 2 West 131 St. New York City, January 1, 1918. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, organized seven years ago to fight American prejudice, brought to a close last Sunday its Seventh Annual mid-year conference, and during the four days that the association was in session it took high ground and went down on record as being opposed to every form of discrimination to white people in this country. Every phase of the association was discussed and when the conference adjourned it resolved to begin its fight anew for the restoration of those rights that properly belong to the Negro. The delegates came from every section of the country and told thrilling stories of how the association was fighting prejudice, and how ground is being ganged through the association. These delegates all are earnest men, women fired by a common cause made in the ball at times as they would relate stories of discrimination against the race and how thus this organization these vexing things were being beaten down. East St. Louis still fresh in minds of the nation came in for a large share of condemnation. The subjects that were discussed as they rejoined Negro were: The Draft, The Colored Slave, The Army. The Y. M. C. A. work army with the Negro. The Negro Migration and the infamous lynch law as worked in this country. The session was called to order on Thursday by Miss Mary White Ovtington, the well known New York philanthropist, who made a brief review of the year's work of the association. Ovtington made by the various heads of department Hon. James W. Johnson field secretary, the organization and that during the year he had organized branches in the teen cities as far South as South Carolina, Florida, and spoken in the Middle-West and other section of the country. He told how that he had called on Southern editors and discussed them various phases of the work and many of them were co operating with the association. One of the most remarkable works was made by Dr. W. E. B. Dubois, the editor of the Crisis, and The director of Publications and Research, who told of the amazing growth of the Crisis. He told how the Crisis had begun in 1910 with 1000 circulation, and in 1920 it reached 50,000. 750 copies of the magazine and that he said to foreign lands, and that the magazine was handled by 800 agents are increasing its circulation. He said that the magazine was self supporting and that its staff of workers were paid not less than sixty dollars per month. The Crisis is fast becoming one of the most remarkable magazines of the world and much of its success is to the peculiar genius of Dr. Dubois. The tying discussion centered around the launch of a mob violence and was opened by George Vashon one of the directors of the Association in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Vashon gave direct information relative to the riot of East St. Louis and throw many sidelights on the matter. He said that the riots of East St. Louis was one of the worst atrocities ever committed here. He related how innocent men and women were shot down in many cases by the militia and police. He said that sentiment had always been against the hero and told how as far back as years ago a colored school teacher was killed in the public square of Belleville when the Mayor of the city looked on. The same man he said had been re-elected office for at least five times by the will of the people and said that gave some idea of the rotten political condition of that section. Rev. George Frazier Miller of Brooklyn, whose recent address hearing on the hanging of the thirteen soldiers at Houston has provoke been discussion was the second speaker and spoke in condemnation of lynching and its causes. An evening session was held at the Ethical culture hall, where the first Spingarum hall was presented by Gov. Whitman 1911 ton. Morefield Storey, the president of the association presided. He was given a warm ovation when he rose to speak praised for his brilliant effort in getting a decision from the Supreme court against segregation. He said in his opening address that there was no conscience in the South and that the South was too much of a coward. Col. James A. Moss who is in comand of the 307th Infantry composed of colored soldiers at Camp Upton, praised the Negro soldiers and that this war was giving them a fine op- portunity to further display their heroism. He said that during his eighteen years in command of Negro regiments he had led them thru two successful campaigns, and said that finer loyalty was never displayed by soldiers. He praised the colored officers and the 4,000 young colored men at Camp Upton and said should an opportunity be given to him to lead them "overseas" they will give a good account of themselves. R. K. Jones of the Urban League told of the interdependence of the two organizations and said that they were willing and ready to co-operate in any way possible. Dr. Jessio Moreland of landing D. C., one of the International secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. for coloreq men told that the Y. M. C. A. was doing for the moral and spiritual benefit for the thousand of colored soldiers here and those that had gone abroad. He said that the Y. M. C. A. was the first to greet the young men at Camp Des Molines, and that the association was making an effort to have the colored soldiers treated fairly. He said that through the Y. M. C. A. was covered at Camp Travis, at Houston Texas, that there was a single company that had a single taint of disease of any kind. Land said that six trained secretaries were now on their way to the front to administer to the colored soldiers and their neq and that as the result of the effort of the association the whole social life of the young men been greatly changed. T. J. Calloway of Washington spoke in the interest of the Crisis and urged those present at a greater interest in the publication, George W. Cooke of Howard University, of that the association was doing in the city Washington and that a keen eye is kept on the situation at the Capital, RevL. G. Jordan of Philadelphia, urge the National Association to take a greater interest in the flag of Liberia and to have it to fly from the homes of the colored people here along with the American flag. The matter was received with great interest by the delegates. The evening session the delegates held a special performance of The Secret in The House by the Lafayette group proved to be a fine recreation. It gave the delegates an opportunity to see what the Negro is doing in the deployment of the drama. At the session on Saturday morning representatives of the various branches made reports. J. W. McCoy of Raleigh, N. C., told how the association was fighting the battles of the race there, and was making sentiment for both races. W. Justice Carter a lawyer of Harrisonburg brought here the conference information from a young colored soldier of the treatment that was being accorded the colored soldiers from Southern soldiers some of the cantonments. A resolution was passed in which the association deemed the bad American treatment of the soldiers by the South white men in the time of war. Other subjects that were passed at the Saturday morning session were Discrimination in Public Places, in the North Migration and affects in the North and the South, and Colored Men in the Y. M. C. A. One of the features of the session was the conference dinner that was held by the delegates at the Libya hotel. One of the crowning features of the conference was the large mass meeting held in the Palace Casino last Sunday afternoon: Despite the severe weather it was largely attended and was enthusiastic one. Called to order was Owington with the big audience of American and prayer by the Roy. Center of Chicago. She then presented F. A. Cain, the president of the local branch. W. Ashleigh Hawkins the noted Negro lawyer of Baltimore and pioneer in the fight against segregation told how the association had waged a fight against the segregation ordinance in that city and how as the result of its effort it had been able to share in the great victory as hand down by the Supreme court. Rabbit Stephen Wise said that the fight of the Negro was similar to THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA that of his own race the Jaws, but that he hoped that the Negro would continue to keep his faith so that he might claim a share in the new democracy. Col. Charles A. Young the first Negro to attain the rank of Colonel, and whose retirement recently created a wild stir throughout the country was easily the outstanding feature of the meeting. When he rose to speak the vast audience rose to the feet and sang the Star Spur that he had written. He recorded the record of the Negro soldiers in wars of the world and said that race needed to be proud of the record made by them. Col Young said that the record of the Negro dated back 120 years ago. He told of how the young Negro officers at Des Moines had met the severest test that was placed before them and as the result had established a new record for the race. His address was one of the most thrilling delivered before the conference, too. E. S. Spirhart the brave high-mounted Army officer who has won a place in the will endure was presented and recited a fine ovation. He presented a magnificent picture of fine Americanism to the meeting at a great sacrifice. Major and Splungen who is stationed at Camp Dix brought a message of cheer and good-will in his address. Others who sat on the rostrum were: Prof. Wm. Pickens, L. M. Hershaw of the Land Office in Washington, and one of the foremost men of the race, Revs F. M.约翰森, A. Cobb of the James Johnson, Prof. George W. Cooke, of Howard University, and others. The mass meeting ended scheduled discussion of the conference and the last event of note was the reception tendered to the delegates at the Henry St. Settlement by Misses Lillian Waid and Mary Wiley Dington. The conference has passed into history and The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stands today as one of the most prominent documents that has ever been launched for the Negro in America. It has made new friends for itself and enters upon the year greatly strengthened for the great fight still ahead. It now has ninety branches throughout the country and a membership of 11,000, with new recruits constantly coming into its fold. SOME OF THE PROMINENT DELEGATES. the conference was attended by some of the most prominent men of the race. Men have made more than the passing reputation in the professions and trades. His correspondent interviewed men from the South, North, East, and West and heard their stories of pioneer work for a newer and better democracy. Dr. Andrew L. Jackson of the Providence branch, a member of the executive board, and Chairman of the membership committee was interesting visitor. He is a graduate of Howard University and since going to Providence has been active in the work of the N. M. C. there. Bishop John Hurst of Baltimore and Bishop of Florida of the A. M. B. Church, and one of the vice-presidents took keen interest in the proceedings and was one of the noted workers at the sessions. Rev. George Frazier Miller of Brooklyn a fearless advocate attended all of the sessions. Among the delegates who brought a burning message to the conference was George Vashon, one of the directors of the branch in St. Louis, Mo., he is well informed on matters as they relate to the race and has lived in Missouri for the past 34 years. He strikes your correspondent as being a fearless advocate and uncompromising. G. Jordan, of Philadelphia, makes his attitude for the race, and a family figure in race gatherings spoke a woke voice and the Liberian flag, Prof. George Cooke who is the secretary and business manager of Howard University, and one of the foremost educators of the race was a familiar figure at the conference. Prof. Cooke has inspired generations of Howard students sand has long been identified with all movements in Washington for the uplift of the race. He is one of the directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was the Chairman of the Council of Fifty and More who fought for Washington and raised $5,000 for the association as fund for this purpose. He is among the foremost of the push men of the race in advocating measures that will make for the security of the race along all lines. Among the interesting delegates from the extreme South was T. L. McCoy, of Raleigh, N. C., Mr. McCoy is a public stenographer and typwriter, and he interesting story of how the adjustment of the races in North Carolina. He relied on several incidents of how the Negro was in a great many cases charged with crime when he never committed, and how that the association much of this is being uncovered. Charles A. Pitman, chair man of the Executive Committee of the St. Louis branch took a keen, interest in the conference. He is a prominent real estate man of city and is a good man and fearless advocate. 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Speaking of the Doctor-Judge murder case this week, she was so confident that the Judge was not guilty of murdering the Judge that she argued from the hypothesis that the Judge could not have killed the Judge if it wanted to, because it was too heartless a task, but the converse was possibly true; that is, the Judge in a fit of dejection and despondency had killed himself and then to hide that he had cut off his own head and dismembered his own body and buried it in some holes. THAT WAS SOME JUDGE THE PLANET DR. CHAMBERLAIN GETS LIFE SENTENCE A TINY BLOOD AND FLESH SPECK FIGURES IN TRIAL Considerable Evidence Offered by State to Convict Physician of Brother's Murder. Goochland Courthouse, Va., January 2.—A speck of flesh and a small clot of blood clinging to a "beggar-house" on a jumper jacket belonging to Dr. Asa W. Chamberlain, found immediately after the doctor's arrest on the charge of slaying his brother, Judge Albert P. Chamberlain, at his home, ten miles west of here, on the night of October 22 may result in sending the accused man to the electric chair. The introduction of the jacket, a saw, supposed to have been used in dismembering the body of the murdered man, splinters from the floor of the room in which the body is sup posed to have been carved, and expert testimony by Dr. J. M. Whitfield, physician, chemist and coronar of Richmond, featured this, the first day of the trial. Dr. Whitfield stated that he had unanalyzed spots and stains on the coat saw and splinters. On the saw, he said, he found spots of blood and blood mixed with clays and hair. blood on the splinters and nothing on the coat except the "beggarhouse" with its blood and flesh covering. In each instance the blood, he said, resembled human blood. DOCTOR SADD BROTHER HAD LEFT FOR WYOMING Dr. Whitfield was the second witness on the stand, following Squire Jack Houchehens, the marshal trade-sleuth who worked up the case against Dr. Chamberlain. Squire Houchehens had identified each of the exhibits connected with Dr. Whitfield's testimony except the sailors which counsel for the defense allowed presented with the understanding that they were not to be considered by the jury unless subsequently identified as coming from the room in Dr. Chamberlain's home. Squire Houchens was the first of Goochland people to suspect foul play when Judge Chamberlain disappeared from his modest little home near Three Squares, following a quarrel with his brother. He lives near the murdered man's place, and was quite friendly with him. On the stand he seated that on October 23, Funder Britt came to his home and told him the judge had disappeared. He then went to the judge's home, he said and there he found Dr. Chamberlain sweeping the kitchen. He asked the doctor what had become of his brother. The doctor said that he had left the night before for Cheyenne, Wyo., and that he had paid him "that note," exhibiting at the same time a receipt purporting to have been signed by the judge for $1,280. Mr. Houchens said then he began to fear that the judge had met with foul play, and asked the doctor why the judge had left at night when there was no train until morning. The doctor told him he said that he did not know why the judge left then, but that he knew he had because they left the house together the judge blowing out the light and locking the door before leaving. HOUCHENS BRINGS ABOUT ARREST OF DOCTOR He stated also that Dr. Chamberlain said his brother might have caught a freight train. This seemed improbable to Mr. Houchens, in view of the fact that the judge was above sixty years old and had only one eye. He suggested this improbability, to the doctor but failed to elicit any reply further than that the judge was old enough to take care of himself and knew what he was doing. Convicted that the judge had not left the community Mr. Houchens he came suspicious of the doctor. In his capacity as magistrate he warned him not to attempt to leave the county. The next day he organized a search party and that afternoon placed the doctor under arrest. The search continued until October 20, the following Sunday, when Judge Chamberlain's body was discovered in the back yard of Dr. Chamberlain's home, Sunviside Farm. Mr. Houcheng was with the party making the discovery. The spine and other parts of the torso were found covered by about two feet of earth in a hole once used an an ice house, the arms, legs heart, lungs and parts of the intestines were found under fence posts whose holes had been deepened about two feet to receive them. Mr. Houcheng stated that there was evidence that preparation for thus hiding the body had been made several days in advance of the actual murder. ARTICLES OWNED BY JUDGE FOUND IN DOCTOR'S HOME Immediately after the finding of the body, Sheriff Massie took Dr. Chamberlain from Goochland jail and carried him to Richmond. The next day Mr. Houchens issued a search warrant and searched the home of Dr. Chamberlain. There he and his fellow searchers found, according to his tes timony, the saw and coat, which was still wet from recent washing, and saw dark stains on the floor. They al so discovered a gold watch, recognized as one owned by Judge Chamberlain, suspended from rafters of an in completed room, and a strong box its lock broken bearing the name of Judge Chamberlain, hidden in a chimney. Mr. Houchens began to testify immediately after the close of a short recess for lunchon. He was on the stand for an hour and a half. Dr. Whitfield's testimony closed the session. Court will open at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow. The State will probably close Friday morning, although it still has a score of witnesses to introduce. Judge John Rutherfoord, before whom the case is being tried, saited today that he desired that the trial be hastened as much as possible in order that the jurymen be not compelled to suffer any longer than is necessary from the extreme cold and limited accommodations here. Court opened today soon after the arrival of the prisoner in custody of Sheriff Sydnor of Richmond, at noon, James C. Page leading counsel for the defendant, moved to quash the indictment on the ground that a member of the grand jury indicting his client had also been a member of the coroner's jury which held the inquest over Judge Chamberlain's body. He failed in this and other efforts. Then he asked a continuance because of the absence of an important witness and the heavy snow. In this he failed also, and his client was summoned to the bar to plead. Dr. Chamberlain stood up, apparently Dr. Chamberlain stood up, apparently Dr. Chamberlain the lengthy indictment, in four counts was read. At the end of the reading, in a slightly husky voice, he pleaded not guilty. DOCTOR'S FATE IN HANDS OF JURY OF FARMERS The names of the forty venomened summoned were called—thirtythree answered, sixteen were passed from the first twenty-seven. Just before recess, Mr. Page exercised his right of four peremptory challenges, and the jury was expended within two and a half hours after court opened. It is evident that a new record for speed in important murder trials is to be established. All of which is satisfying to those interested in the case, for Goochland has not seen worse weather for many years. Since early morning, snow has fallen readily. Witnesses, court officials and venomened from the outlying districts suffer much from cold, even those who have been so fortunate as to get quarters here being subjected to the hardship of walking long distances over country roads and through snow to and from the courthouse. All the jurymen are farmers, They are Charles Mosby, James H. Bowles, J. Floyd Nichols, Herbert Crowder, A. S. Mosby Thomas Perkins, N. C. Lippy, A. H. Sperd, James P. Martin, Edwin S. Lacy, Erie W. Isbell, and George L. Paine. Louis O. Wendenburg and Walter Leake are associated with David Leake Commonwealth's attorney pro tem, in the prosecution. Walter Leake today stated the State's case against the accused, denouncing him as the murderer of his brother, and asked for the death penalty. Mr. Wendenburg led in examining witnesses. Convay . Sands of Richmond, is associated with Mr. Page in the defense. WEB DRAWN TIGHTER ABOUT PHYSICIAN. Damaging Testimony Against Dr. Chamberlain by Colored Witnesses. STATE MAY CLOSE TO DAY. Goochland Murder Case Won't Go to Jury Before Monday Night. Goochland, Courthouse, Va., January 3.—The testimony of three Negroes today tightened the web of circumstantial evidence steadily weaving around the life of Dr. Asa W. Chamberlain, being tried here for the murder of his brother, Judge Albert P. Chamberlain on the night of October 22. Funder Britt, attendant upon the Judge, Emma Britt, Britt's wife, and Louisa Bontwright, housekeeper for the accused man on that fateful day when the body of the unfortunate brother was found cut into eight pieces, beneath posts of a fence in the doctor's graden were the witnesses. Funder Britt, an intelligent, indus trions mulatto owned a little home near the judge's home. He waited up on the judge in odd moments found from other work about the community. He said today that it was the judge's custom to leave his home and the care of his live stock in his hands when he traveled. On October 22, the day the judge was last seen, Funder said the judge came to his little home to borrow his cutting blade, meaning an implement he used for chopping stock feed. Judge Chamberlain wanted the cutter to cut cabbage for a stock of sauerkraut he was then putting up for the winter. At the time, he told Funder to come to his home that afternoon and get some cabbage leaves for his hogs. During the day Funder said he went to work at Mr. Lacy's arriving home late. He did not go for the cabbage leaves that night, but was fatigued and retired early. Next morning he went to the judge's home, but was unable to arouse anybody, so again went to work for Mr. Lacy. About 3 o'clock that afternoon rain compelled him to quit work. He returned home, and again visited the judge's home. This time he tried the door and found it unlocked. He opened the door and saw his employer's shoes and overcoat, but could find no evidence of his presence. This worried him, and he started to look for the judge. Later he and Mr. Lacy returned to the place. Then he found a key on the in side of the front-door lock and a crumpled $5 bill on the floor of the front room. WITNESS CORROBORATES HOUCHIUS TESTIMONY. Wednesday, Funder continued, he went to the railroad station to see if the judge had gone away. The agent said he had not. Then Funder started for Dr. Chamberlain's home to see if the judge was there. En route he met Dr. Chamberlain. The doctor told him his brother had gone to Wyoming. Funder was hurt by this information. He felt that his old friend had not treated him "jes' right, gain' off that away and not lettin' him know abo it. The doctor said that was all right; the judge might be back within two months, adding later, however, according to Funder that it was a miggaty bad place the judge had gone to; men often went there and never returned, human skeletons being sometimes found there. DINWIDDIE Normal & Industrial Dinwiddie, Virginia Funder says he gave the doctor the key he had found in the lock, but kept the money to give to the judge if he ever returned. Then he and the doctor proceeded to the judge's home, while the physician said had been left in his care. Arrived at the home, the doctor sent Funder to catch "the pig" and entered the house to "clean up the k'chen." It was then that Squire Houcheens arrived and interrogated, the doctor relative to the judge's disappearance. The witness corroborated the testimony given yesterday by the magistrate, stating that the doctor had made several conflicting statements as to the clothing the judge wore at the time he left him to start on this journey "for the West." I on this journey "for the West." It was subsequently discovered, the wift witness stated, that all of the judge's clothing, except a suit of the overall, was found in his home. When last seen the judge was wearing the overall and a straw hat found by Squire Houcheens on the floor of his kitchen. DAMAGING TESTIMONY BY LOUISA BOATWRIGHT Emma Britt a neat matto, who loves to speak properly, corroborated all her husband's statements, in so far as his actions came under her observations, and added that she had seen a light burning in the judge's home when she retired at about 8 o'clock Monday evening. This is the Light Dr. Chamberlain is alleged to have stated that his brother blew out when they departed from the home that night. The lamp in the home was subsequently found dry by Squire Houchens, who says it evidently had burned until it went out. Louisa Boatwright's testimony is considered the most damaging against the accused physician. She said on the day of the alleged murder her employer left home at about 11 o'clock to take his wife to the railroad station, whence she was to leave for a visit to relatives in Nebraska. He borrowed her horse for this purpose, feeding the horse just before departure. In the wagon he placed a bag full of crab grass, she said. Before going he told her that he would stop by his brother's and settle "that note." He returned a little after 9 o'clock that night. It was late for him, but she had waited, keeping supper ready for him. When she heard the horse drinking at the cistern she opened the door, and the doctor seemed surprised that she had waited. A short conversation ensued. Then she closed the door and placed supper on the table. Several minutes later the doctor came in, ate sparingly of supper and dismissed her for the night. When she started home he followed her to the door, an unusual occurrence. In her pathway was a large dark object. He told her not to mind that, as it was nothing but the harness. She continued homeward. UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN PHYSICIANS' HOME Louisa said when she returned next morning the doctor had already breakfasted, and that he volunteered the information that he had "damped" the fence posts into position. She said the posts had been standing in the holes, untamped, several days—more than a week, she was sure. In cleaning the house that day Louisa said she noticed that a fire had been built in the fire place of the doctor's room. This too was unusual as well as was the fact that the ashes from the fire had been, as she said the doctor told her, dumped in the hogpen. Louisa also noticed that one of two large rubber blankets were missing. She identified the jumper-jacket yesterday introduced as belonging to Dr. Chamberlain. Cross-examination by James C. Page leading counsel for the defense, failed to weaken the testimony of either of the colored witnesses. Really, it seemed, the prosecution was more than well-pleased with the few additional facts brought out by the defense. A dozen other witnesses were put on the stand, most being used to identify the various articles exhibited yesterday and to corroborate previous testimony. There were no conflicting statements. Papers in the arbitration proceedings through which Judge Chamberlain won an award of several hundred dollars from his brother, were read into the evidence this morning by Walter Leake, of State's counsel. It was stated that an effort would be made to prove the doctor was attempting to defraud his brother of the amount through deeding his property to a person to whom he was not indebted, Robert N. Kent, Jr., a Richmond benk er, was named as trustee in a paper filed by Dr. Chamberlain alleged to have been a part of his scheme to swindle his brother. Mr. Kent testified that he knew nothing of his appointment as trustee. EXPECTS TO SHOW REASON FOR DOCTOR'S ANGER The State seeks to prove that it was through these proceedings that the doctor became angered with the judge. It contends that the award furnished a motive for the crime. The State will close its case before noon tomorrow, it is understood tonight. The defense has less than a dozen witnesses, and will begin submitting evidence in the afternoon. Just what turn this evidence will take no one has been informed. It is thought that all of it will be in by Saturday noon at any rate. It is hardly probable, however, that the case will reach the jury before Monday, unless night sessions are held in the meantime. The accused today seems to evidence his first signs of anxiety over the out come of the trial. Frequently he seem ed dazed, but always he would smile when his frail little girl wife nestled against his shoulder. Mrs. Chamberlain seems not to realize the gravity of her husband's situation and often is amused at the wrong time. With the lessening of the weather rigorousness by today's unclouded, sun, many spectators came to add volume to the already overcrowded little courtroom. 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He was bound to believe that Albert had betrayed him. The case resulted in a fine of $700 and costs. His bondman there was unsecured. When it seemed that Albert was determined to take most of his property he decided to execute a deed of him to once more, would he be protected. This raised his brother to institute proceedings for recovery of the note he had given him. At first the doctor was determined to fight payment of his brother, but finally decided to pay and he done with it. They had some correspondence through which a compromise was proposed. The note was to be discounted $200 if paid. The doctor had an $800 nest egg in cash. He sold his live stock and some other things. He arranged to spend the winter in Iowa where he had a license to practice medicine and a good practice. In the hope that he could recoup his deplet ed finances. BELIEVES BROTHER CAUGHT TRAIN FOR CHEYENNE Monday morning October 22, he carried his wife to Irwin, whence she was to go to Keatney, Neb. to visit pending his winding up his affairs here and starting for Stratford. On the way home from the station he went to his brother's home and found him there. He paid him and accepted his brother's receipt, written on the back of his note. This done, his broth erwent upstairs, dressed and came down. The judge told him he was going to Chevonne, where he was interested in oil, and asked him to have a "Sus" Bowlwright care for his pig as "Sus" while he was away. Then they left the home, shook hands and parted. A little while doctor says he heard a train whistle blow and he supposed his brother had caught that train. This was at 6:30 o'clock. He never saw his brother again he said. Two days later, after being very busy about "Sunnyside," the doctor said he went in a wagon to get his brother's pig and some potatoes. It was understood that Funder Britt was to care for the pig until he came for it. Enroute he met Britt who asked ed him where his brother was. He told him as far as he knew. He and Britt went to the judge's home where he was sweeping and the Negro was running down the pig when the Honchens arrived, with his stutute and questions." The squire was inquisitive and suspicious telling him not to attempt to have the county. He returned home. The next day he was preparing to come to the courthouse to learn by what authority the squire acted so arbitrarily, when the latter came and arrested him. Since then he has been in jail. DENIES HE IFEVER PRACTICED SURGERY; ADVERSE TO IT During his testimony the doctor denied that he ever practiced surgery stating that he was too averse to cutting human flesh. In an attempt to refute expert testimony by Dr. Leake, given earlier in the day to the effect that Judge Chamberlain's body could not have been dissected as it was except by an expert, he stated that one foot was with a chicken's anatomy could have performed the operations pointed out by Dr. Leake. The doctor licked once or twice he was on the stand. While he was showing his deformed foot to the jury men, he laughed. He showed the foot in an effort to prove that it would have been physically impossible for him to have carried the heavy body of his brother upstairs to the room in which it is alleged to have been cut up. The foot and much of the leg are practically useless to him. He had not finished giving direct testimony when court adjourned at 8 o'clock, a condition that he will occupy the stand tomorrow. The defense expects other important witnesses from the West. It may not close its case before Monday. Dr Chamberlain stated tonight that he had important disclosures to make at the end of this trial, whether or not he was convicted. When sworn to day heh opened the court Bible and kissed it fervently. STATE CLOSES ITS CASE DURING TUR. FORENOON The State closed its case at 11 o'clock this morning with the submission of a certificate showing Dr. Caumberlain to have been a practicing physician. This followed the testimony of Dr. Lon's K. Leake, coroner, and an expert in surgery and anatomist, who presided at the inquest held over the deceased body of Judge Chamberlain. He noted that the dissection of the limbs and the method of decantation showed the work of a master hand. No one not thoroughly acquainted with the structure of the human body could have cut the body as he found it, he testified. Dr. Leake went into detail as to the condition of the body and the technical language as far as possible in order that the jury could follow him. He said that the head was so ered from the last joint of the spinal column and looked as if it had lain in blood. The vertebrae between the top joint nq the joint to which the first rib is attached and the fleshy part of the neck had been destroyed. This fact, coupled with the bulging eye found in the head, led to the beating of the neck and been strangled. Proof of strangulation could not be positive with the neck and neck bones missing. The witness told the of the thoroughness of workmanship in disembling other parts of the body. Where rigor mortis had set in at the knee and elbow joints the simple operation of cutting a tendon had been performed. There was not mutilation there, the limbs had been folded neatly to prevent them from holes where they were found. The heart and liver had been cut in twain. The stomach was never found. The defense opened its case at 11:45 o'clock after a brief recess to prepare witnesses. Mrs. Elsie W. Chamberlain nineteen-year-old wife of the accused was the first witness. She told of the preparation for her visit to relatives in Kearney on the day the murder is alleged to have been committed. She knew of no trouble beween her husband and his brother and was positive the doctor had made no preparation for murder. The post in the yard of their home she said was prepared Saturday before her departure Monday because the fence was down and the doctor wanted ed to repair the fence for the keeping of stock for the winter. Louisa Boatwright housekeeper for the doctor called as a State's witness had testified previously that the post holes were dug at least a week before the murder. Mrs. Chamberlain contradicted her. Verdict Expected When Court Con Verdict Expected When Court vence this Time at 9 a.m. Conway R. Sands Refers to Wendonburg as "Man With Blood in His Eye." Goochland, Va., January 7—The jury deliberates to tonight over the fate of Dr. Asa W Chamberlain, alleged murderer of his brother, Judge Albert P. Chamberlain, whose militated body was found buried in the doctor's yard in this county Sunday October 29. The case passed into the hands of the jury at 10:30 o'clock to night. After a six-day trial, culminating in an impassioned appeal for the death penalty by Louis O. Wendenburg, special counsel employed to aid the night session was held, in the hope that a verdict could be given before midnight, but been Mr. Wendenburg closed his argument the jury requeste that it be given until to-morrow morning to consider the evidence. A verdict is expected at 9 o'clock. In concluding his terrible lashing of the grim physician, who gave him so terrify a battle in the cross examination of Saturday Mr. Wendenburg more than eveed the score with the declaration that if "a man can plan and execute so cruel and deliberate and willful murder as this and dying his guilt and punishment by merely denying his guilt and punishment by the many incriminating facts that demand of him satisfactory explanation, then the time has arrived when you should close your Bibles, dissolve society into its original elements and return to barbarism and brutality; raze your churches and your courts and look no longer to your government for safety and protection. Remember that it is the crime of this man that has forfeited his life so that he did not you, that deprives him of your life. It is God who has said, "An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth and a life for a life." REFERNS TO WENDENBURG AS MAN WITH BLOOD IN HIS EYE Mr. Wendenburg's argument followed that of Conway R. Sands, who attacked him as the "man with blood in his eye, coming here to demand the life of an innocent man." "I know this Loney Wendenburg," said Mr. Sands. "He is the fellow who hurt in the Henrico gold brick case, proclaimed the crime and will then derer for the blood of the client." Both Mr. Sands and James C. Page made stirring speeches in their client's behalf. Examination of the witnesses came to rather an abrupt close at noon today, when the State closed rebuttal testimony of an inconsequential nature. Immediately thereafter, Judge Rutherford and counsel for the State defense retired to chambers to argue in court. This was complied shortly after 3 o'clock. Then Judge Rutherford read his inciting to the jury. Counsel and spectators were impressed by the clearness, brevity and fairness of the judge's charge. DAVID H. LEAKE OPENS FOR THE PROSECUTION Shortly before 4 o'clock, David H. Leake, serving as Commonwealth's attorney because of the illness of Judge A. X. Monteiro, began argument for the State, Mr. Leake, a native of Goochland, now residing in Richmond for four years Stats' attorney for Goochland. The jurors to whom he spoke and the judge gave him perfect attention. His speech was clear, concise and to the point. He reviewed the case thoroughly and told the jury that the evidence submitted pointed clearly to the guilt of the accused man. This, he said, was painful to him, but as great a duty upon him as upon the jurors. No verdict, then that of guilt of murder in the first degree would be his said. Mr. Leake spoke for an hour and a half, half of the time allotted to the State for argument. James C. Page associated with Conway R. Sanda, was schedule immediately to follow Mr Leake, but was not ready, and asked for an hour in which to prepare Judge Rutherford, while not wishing him to remind him that the jurors had sat long on the case and that it was the case the court to expedite matters as much as possible. It was agreed, however that a recess of two hours be given for preparation and supper. DR. CHAMBERLAIN IN CHEERFUL MOOD. Mr. Page was followed by his az. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA soclate, their time being limited to three hours. When they concluded, Mr. Wendenburg, still charing from the hard battle given him by the accused in Saturday's cross examination politely scored the defendant. At the conclusion of Mr. Wendenburg's argument the case was placed in the hands of the jury. The case in jail since the Wednesday preceding Sunday, October 29, when his brother's decapitated and dismembered body was found under posts of a fence at his home on "Sunshine's" Farm ten miles above here, was in a cheerful frame of mind when court opened this morning. Sunday his wife and daughter spent all day in his cell, lending en courage and hope. Contrary to expectations he was not recalled to the stand today, the most interesting one the defense being the daughter, Mrs. Clara Axford, who arrived Saturday from Wheatland, Wyoming. Aside from her identification of several letters in which her father had expressed to her his deep love for his brother at the time he was in a Rochester, Minn., hospital. Mrs. Axhad little of importance to tell. Her evident sweetness and love for the grim old physician whose life is at stake had a remarkable effect on spectators, however, and it is believed the jury was impressed. Several witnesses testifying today in behalf of the defense, and they are garded Dr. Chamberlain as a man his dealings and kind to those of his family circle. The defenceman said 12 o'clock that it would rest after putting Henry C. Riley, a Richmond lawyer, on the stand to tell of advising Dr. Chamberlain how to receipt the board of arbitration note in settling a debt the physician owe the brother Louisa Botwright a Negro woman who was employed as a cook in the physician's home in giving rebuttal testimony, said Dr. Chamberlain's never prepared his own breakfast prior to October 23, the day following the murder, neither did he remove the ashes. After the doctor was arrested on the pigs, but did not go to the house, he was with her when she fed the pigs. E. U. Lowe, one of the witnesses, said he has known the defendant for thirty years. He had often loaned the doctor small amounts in Iowa and found that the physician was a man of his word. He cited an instance of Dr. Chamberlain refusing to use a knife on his sister when amputation of a limb was necessary. The defense laid stress on this fact, as tending to show that the doctor knew little of surgery and had an aversion to operation. Lowe was the minority member of the arbitration board. He didn't think the judge was entitled to $1,455, but signed the paper in the forwent hope and belief that this settlement would keep the brothers out of court. SAILORS THREATEN POLICE Mob in Norfolk Dispersed by Free Uso of Light-sticks. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 6. — Feeling that one of their shipmates had been mistreated at the hands of the police, 125 United States sailors descended upon the First Precinct Police Station this morning at 2:30 o'clock and threatened violence unless the prisoner was released. Reserves were called in from the Second Precinct and street men were hurried to the station-house. The officers remonstrated with the blue-jackets and urged a peaceable departure. Failing in this, a dozen or more police charged the doff and by free use of nightstickes scaled it. A couple of shots were fired into the air by the police and the captured men scattered. A delegation later waited on Chief of Police Kizer at the local hotel, but got no satisfaction at the trouble started in a Main Street Chicken restaurant, when a sailor is alleged to have beaten a colored woman employed there. NORMAL SCHOOL RESUMES ITS WORK AFTER HOLIDAYS Petersburg, Va., Jan. 3.—The Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, after a few days of holiday, resumed today its work for the last month of the first semester. The large number of students who wont home for the holidays returned today promptly at their posts of duty, and are already seriously engaged with the work of the class room. The first three months of the pres-ent school year have been unusually busy ones for the institute. In addition to the routine duties of the school, they are always full, the officers, teachers and students have been actively and hardened engaged in doing their bit to win the war they have generously contributed to the Y. M. C. A. War Fund five hundred dollars; have given substantial donations to the Red Cross Relief Fund, and to other local charitable institutions, and have rendered programs for entertainment of soldiers at Camp Bella so quite a number of the teachers also quite a number of the president John M. Gandy, were active to the extent of their presence and contact with the very successful joint meeting of the Negro Organization Society, and the State Teachers Association he'd just before the holidays in Portsmouth. The work of the institution thus far for the present term has lived up to the they on not only doing effectively the described courses of study, but also of helping the usefulness of the school felt in all of the social activities of the colored people of the State. DO YOU KNOW THEM? I desire to know the whereabouts of my son, Ezekiel Collins. He left Richmond October 9th 1917 without saving where he was going. He is 28 years old, of light brown complexion about age 5 for 7 inches (all clean face. Any information as to whether he is dead or alive will be thankfully received by his mother. MARTHA COLLINS. 2708 Q. St. Richmond, Va. ROANOKE NEWS NOTES ROANOKE, VA., January 7.—Mrs. H. C. Dent, of 623 Harrison avenue N. W. paid a ten-day vift to Charleston, W. Va., visiting her sister, Mrs. Helen Davies. She had a pleasant tme, and made many new acquaintances. She returned January 3. Sunday night, January 6, the Rev. Poe, Presiding Elder of Stanton District of the A. M. E. Church delivered a rch sermon to the people of M. Zion A. M. E. Church, using as a text, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. My yoke is easy and I am not afraid. My yoke shall and rest unto your soul." He preached a masterly sermon. The Elder is quite a strong preacher. Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D., of M. Ztion A. M. E. Church preached Sunday morning from Isaiah 48:17. The central thought advanced in his discourse was the most profitable investment to man was to take hold on God and His Word and there was no chance of losing, if we faithfully cling to Him in life, at death, an eternal reward of heavenly gain will be ours and we will be rewarded when done. The collections were very good, amounting to $41.66 for the day. Little Earl Means of the Southeast corner of Seventh avenue and Park street was almost instantly killed by a large oil tank which collided with the sleigh on which young Means was coasting down Third street. The truck ran over Means, crushing his head under the wheels. It is said he died before arriving at Burrell's Memorial Hospital. It was a sad end to the life that took the residence Sunday evening at 2:30 o'clock. Funeral Director W. F. Hurches had charge. Mrs. Helen Barlow and her son, Clemmons, who came home Christmas to spend the Holidays with relatives and friends left for Pittsburgh Wednesday evening, where the boy is attending school and he shows a marked ability in manual training, as well as in computer skills. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Taylor, of Indianapolis, Ind., were visiting the parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Taylor, of Vinton, Va. during the Christmas Holidays, he returned January 7. Miss Nellyle Myers, of 1128 Gilmer avenue, N. W., who for five years has been confined to her room from the effect of fever falling in her limbs and feet, 'one of the most contentious ladies in the city,' please to me. She contents to needle work and is a real artist with needles and fancy knitting. She informed the writer that she has been a Christian since she was thirteen years old and that the contentment that comes to her heart and mind is due to her implicit confidence in God. She is also a fine violinist. I enjoyed her social converses so very much January 3. I was compelled to confess my neglects as a strong man. Miss Myra informed me that she had received twelve hundred visitors in five years. Mr. Elijah Walker, of Walker street, Salem, MA. died Friday evening at 7:30 at his home. He was very conscious of the approaching end. He informed his housekeeper, Mr. Walker, of a church Christian character and died in a commemorative death in that he remained faithful to life journey's end and entered into eternal rest, the reward for faithful service in the Master's vipardy. Mr. Billy Taylor, of 161 Wells Alley, N. W. paid a visit to his mother and sister at Doctor, Delaware, where he spent the Christmas most delightfully with his mother, Mrs. Maggie Taylor and daughter. He returned home Saturday much pleased with the trip. Mr. Robert Hancock, of Ninth avenue, N. E., ded Saturday, January 5, after several months illness. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and ded in full triumph, of faith. Interment Monday, January 7. Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church. Mr. Robert of Virginia, Va. died Friday, December 21, 1017. She leaves two sisters, two brothers, one daughter, one son and several grandchildren to mourn their loss. She was the mother of Mr. H. H. Green, of 712 First street, S. W. the stamach agent for Bibles, hymn books and religious literature for Roanoke. Misses Lucie R. Lewis and Helen Z. Alexander, public school teachers of Washington, D. C., were the house guests of Mrs. E. R. Eicks during the Holidays. They returned to Washington with most favorable impressions of the hospitality of the people of Roanoke. New E. R. Eicks. Minister of the First Baptist church, gives a very interesting account of the trip to New York, where he was in attendance upon the meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He states, "That notwithstanding the fact that the thermometer registered fourteen degrees below zero and though the winds were high and the snow does the frost biting and fuel scarce, yet none of these things chilled the enthusiasm of the delegates or daunted them in their determination to take their place on the Dining-room to make democracy 'in the flesh' as safe for the race as another." Roanoke may soon join with Richmond and Norfolk in having a real Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. Helping Hand Home Society will have their regular monthly business meeting Tuesday night, January 8, 1918, at the residence of Sister Molle Brower, Eighth avenue, N. E. at eight o'clock sharp. As this will be our first meeting in the New Year, every member is cordially invited to meet with her and was also proud to have the n. e. ex-President Sister Georgia A. Hairston, in the city to spend the Christmas Holidays with her parents and friends. She was looking fine. She is a student at V. N. and I. L., Petersburg, Va. We wish her a very successful term. Lena Barnes, President; Mary Alice Robertson, Secretary. Rev. E. R. Eickra preached an excellent sermon Sunday from the church to watch Your Step." Rev. J. W. Fauqua were in the city this week in attendance upon the burial of their Mrs. Polly Fauqua, who died on the third of this month. Rev. State Grand Lodge of Virginia, The Independent Order of Good Samaritans and What They Stand For. THE ENDOWMENT DEPARTMENT operated s no. October, 1901, issuing policies for One Hundred Dollars. Since 1901 we have paid in Deatl. Claims, NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($00,000). The Juvenile Department Charity Fund pays TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS (.25.00) at the death of the members. Our Home Office Building at the N. W. Corner Sixth and Duval Streets, worth EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS ($8,000) all paid for. ALL DEATH CLAIMS PAID PROMPTLY. THE SUBORDINATE LODGES Pay Weekly Sick Benefits from $1.50 to $3.00 per week. THE JOINING FEE IS IN THE REACH OF ALL. TO CARRY FORWARD THE WORK OF TEMPERANCE REFORM in such a manner that all may receive and enjoy its healing influences. To secure sympathy and relief for the unfortunate and distressed fam lies of those who pledge themselves to abstain from all intoxicating dr nks. To elevate the living, to comfort the Widows and Fatherless in the hour of their affliction, and bury the dead of our Order, and generally in love to spread the prince ples of true Charity in the hearts of members, thereby increasing the Truth from which shall flow perennial streams of comfort to the afflicted, and blessing to all. OURS IS A SECRET ORDER. But so far from being objectionable, we claim it a merit. In whatever light opponents may choose to regard our enterprise, we at least entertain no S. W. Fiqua is stationed at Norfolk, Va. Rev. W. F. Loe, newly installed pastor of High Street Baptist Church filled the pulpit morning and night. He preached two fine sermons. The Stork visited the home of Mr. Ms. Avirin L. Coleman, 1818 Eighth Avenue, N.E. the HOF of January and left a fine housing boy, Mother and baby are getting along fine. Quite a number of Roanoke young men have been placed in Class One and Two under the new draft by questionnaires. Roanokers are experiencing the hardest Winter in the history and when the coal and wood is hardest to secure. Lawyer Jacob L. Reld has returned from West Virginia. It's trip was successful. Coventry Mr. Stuart has appointed Mr. Reld notary public, the only one in Roanoke among our people in this city. Mrs. Annie Tatum Grayson, of Washington, D. C. is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. James Hendrick, of Gillmer avenue. She returned Monday night. H. C. Jones, formerly of the Southern Aid Insurance Company and Mr. George Dillard have enlisted in the army and navy. Mrs. Anna Spencer and Mrs. Agnes Predew, of Elkhorn, W. Va. returned home after spending a week as the guest of Mrs. Agnes Marsh, on Wells avenue. Miss Bessie Barna McLaurin, the daughter of Mrs. Annie Dudley became the bride of Mr. Eddie Washburn, evening at four o'clock and left Shawne for Watt, W. Va., where they will make their future home. Her friends wish her much success. Mrs. L. J. White, formerly the proprietress of the North East Cafe has bought the cafe formerly owned by Messrs. Douglass and Bannister, where her many friends will be delighted to patronize her, as well as her old customers from North East, who will continue to visit her, as she has always striven to give first-class service as well as keep the best of order. We hope for Madam White great success in her Elite Cafe. Mrs L. J. White's place can be found on the corner of Fifth and Gainesboro avenues, N. W. Don't forget that Madison Stangeld is prepared to furnish you The Richmond Planet, the leading journal of the State of Virginia. Alsoills for your Ills, Plasters for your them, sims, relieves you if you try two years' experience of the results aim to raise the circulation one hundred more by the middle of 1918 unless all the readers leave town.—M. Stannard, Buster Porter and Joe COLORED BOY KILLED WHILE COASTING. Roanoke, Va., Jan. 6. Earl Meens, a fourteen-year-old colored boy, was killed while coasting Saturday about 4:30 P. M., when he collided with a large automobile truck at the corner of Gilmer avenue and Third street, N. W. According to witnesses, the boy was coasting on Third street down an extremely steep hill, between Patton and Gilmer avenues, and was going at a high speed, and the truck, which was owned by the Standard Oil company, was running east on Gilmer avenue. Meens, and another colored boy named Dillard, were on separate sleds, close together, coming down the hill, and it is said that Dillard's sled passed under the truck but that Meens was a little way up the hill, and was caught under one of the sled wheels of the heavy truck. Meens was held by Dr. J. H. Roberts, who is said to have been a witness to the accident, and started to the Burrell Memorial Hospital, but died before reaching it. His neck was broken and his skull fractured Dillard escaped with a slight injury to one arm. One witness stated that he attempted to stop the truck before the accident, and others say that the driver of the truck, who gave his name as Hilton, stopped the truck in half its length as soon as he saw the boys coming down the hill and that the accident was unavoidable. The Meens hoy is a team of Wilson H Meens, who is a porter at the office of the president of the Norfolk and Western railway, and one of Ponnoke's best known colored citizens. 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One of the most patriotic appeals coming to our attention of late is that made by Editor Isaac Fisher, of the Fisk University News, published at Nashville, Tennessee. The tone is so lofty, so unselfish the viewpoint throughout that it deserves to be widely disseminated. Taking as his text the metaphor, "Do not lock the Boat," the editor recites the folly of introducing any intercine quarrels or differences into the national craft at this crucial period, when every such antagonism serves to affect detrimentally the welfare of the republic, and give aid and comfort to the enemy with which we are at war. The public is reminded that labor and industry are not any rate have offered a kind of trust which it is hoped will last until peace is declared. In other words, they will desist from rocking the boat. It is recognized that the fortunes of both are at stake, and only by pulling together is the haven of safety attainable. One other grave question the nation must consider at this time especially, is the race problem, and the editor of the Fisk University News hesitates to advise his confreres because of past experiences, but he feels that he has a duty to perform that cannot be shirked, hence he adopts the Negro race in particular, admitting that the important thing to remember is that the United States is at war. Say he: We need unity, we need good will, we need a vision of the finer things for which the nation stands, while we carry our cross during the holocaust of war. We were born here; and in so far as we are able, we are to that extent responsible for the persecution of our ancestors. If I were not so, the government should have used to offer our lives in its defense. We know that the most serious question before the American people is the race question. It is the only one which men seem unable to discuss without losing their temper. It is the only question which threatens the death of the republic. You and I know this; and we are compelled to become sober when we think about it. Knowing all the Negro's grievances, his sorrows, his humiliations, his heartaches, the editor carmely entreats his people not to rock the boat at this time. He cautions that "every racial disturbance which turns the attention of the country away from us racial disturbance before us gives comfort to the task before us giving him know we are not united." He makes a strong plea for the curbing of resentment, for the exercise of supreme self-control. Rocking the boat by indulging in bitter words, resentful deeds showing a disrespect for law, evincing arrogance, harboring memories of injustices, real or fancied, is to imperil the republic. It is equally the duty of the white south and the white north not to rock the boat, points out this thoughtful exhorrion to wave their own grievances against the Negro for the present, with the same object in view. Whatever may be the reservations 5 FREE FIVE misgiving as to its tendency. The Constitution and By-laws of our Order are in the reach of all who wish to examine them. There are also solemn admonitions inculcated in the Constitution, which search the car of any except those who are accounted worthy of members p. MOTTO IS LOVE, PURITY AND TRUTH and upon these three pillars rest the structure of our Institution. We believe our Order is condone we to the welfare of both us and it is our duty to all to watch over one another in sickness and in health and to remonstrate with those who wander from the paths of rectitude and sobriety. We hope you will decide to come with us in this onward march and we will do you good. COME AND SEE. A. however, of white north or white south, of the Negro everywhere, they must give way at this time to the transcendent needs of the republic hence the reiterated editorial admonition, "Do not rock the boat." The commendation of all loyal citizens, white and black, is due to the patriotism of the Black University News for the broad stance taken to echo the sentiments expressed by Mr. Arthur D. Wright, state school Inspector of the department of public instruction of Virginia, who declares he has seen nothing hearing on the subject that approaches the editorial herein noted for wisdom and good advice. He adds, in a letter to the Fisk University News: "Such express soins as you have put down in this instance are the things that are count relations, and helping those of us who are striving to be of help to your people." (Richmond Va., Evening Journal, January 7, 1918.) DO YOU KNOW HIM? I am very anxious to locate my father, Daniel Scott. He worked in a brick yard in Richmond in 1860. 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POSTPAID $192 Hair nets, brushes, comba and toilet articles manufactured by Adrian and two cotton stamps. Agents Wanted. Advertise below. HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY. 301-197 Park Row, New York City. RE PLANET GERMANY'S COLONIES (New York Wall Street Journal.) Among the revolutions of German propaganda none is more disquieting than the teaching of German ideas in our public schools under pretense of instruction in the German language. Here is a quotation from a school textbook, a Hiteral translation of a justification of the murder of Hottenot prisoners in German Southwest Africa: "These black men have deserved death, according to the divine and human law, not because they have killed 200 farmers and revolted against us, but because they have not built houses and have not dug wells. The song we sung day before yesterday at divine service, 'We Go Before God the Just to Pray,' means, as I understand. God permitted us to conquer because we are noble and ambitious. But that does not amount to much against the black people." Peter Moore's "Hobbit and the Dragon." Fairt maca Suedwest. Contribute this treatment of natives with that of the British who recall in disgrace an official unable to govern without force. The most intelligent tribe south of the Zambezi is that offshoot of the Zuluns which inhabits Basutoland. They are a higher type than our Negroes, who educated, and, although they fought the British, were conquered by kindness and not by arms. Although inhabiting a mountainous country, they are the only negroid race which breeds and rides horses. At the outbreak of the Boer War, the Basutos, occupying as they do territory bordering on the Orange Free State, one of the Boer republics and resenting ill treatment and depredation by their Dutch neighbors offered 120,000 first-class fighting men to the British, but were told that if it was "a white man's war." There was no need to shoot any of them, disappointed as they were, and tempting as the opportunity for reprisals must have been. They were, in fact, throughout the war, kept in complete order by the British administrator, Sir Godfrey Lagden, and a handful of white policemen. Would this have been possible for the Germans, on their record? Their treatment of natives all over Africa has been intolerably cruel. Is it believable that the South African colonists will permit, or Great Britain will enforce, the restoration of German rule? No people in the world's history have understood so well the just and humane government of subject races, or won their confidence and affection so completely as the British. But German exploitation, arrogance and cruelty merely create a desert and call it order, or a slavery and call it government. Here is a convincing reason why conditions before the war can never be restored. And we in our ignorance are allowing our public school teachers to teach German theories repulsive to civilization and Christian humanity. FAMILY KITCHEN SHOULD GO ON HOTEL EFFICIENCY BASIS. The Food Administrator says: "If the saving in the family kitchens of America were proportionate to that in hotels, clubs, restaurants an dining cars there would be no difficulty in providing from America's savings alone sufficient food to relieve the it union in Europe." Figures from all the States are not yet obtainable, but according to the Food Administration, Massachusetts in one month saved over a million pounds of meat and nearly a million pounds of flour. Nebraska saved 422,822 pounds of meat and 294,419 pounds of flour. One railway dining car service alone saved in a single month 12, 541 pounds of meat. One big hotel saved in a single month 30, 295 pounds of meat and 24,402 pounds of flour. Fully 90 percent. of the hotel proprietors and restaurant men have pledged their support to the Food Ad ministration. These men report that there is now practically no waste in their kitchens. Everything is served or saved. Even the entrails of chickens are sold to soap makers. Table scraps that cannot be used for food are stored in barrels and sold partly for hog, partly for soap and fertilizer. SUGAR A NATIONAL EXTRAVAGANCE If we have a national sweet tooth, as Mr. Hoover accuses us of having we have got to have at pulled. Why should we fill it with 90 pounds of sugar per person each year when the Italians have only 9 pounds, the French 13 and the English 26? If these nations are getting along with no detriment to health with this decrease in their sugar rations, and if they are doing all the fighting on enormously decreased sugar rations, isn't it pretty positive proof that we are consuming many pounds of sugar more than we need just because we are a self-indulgent spolled lot of people? One fact very few of us realize—that by cutting out the extra spoful of sugar a day we are able to save in our households. It is the little bit saved in each household that helps the allies. It is the little overindulgence in each household that aids the enemy. WASTE ON THE FARM. 'It is estimated that of every 100 bushels of wheat grown, at least 10 per cent, never reaches the mill or market, and of corn a still larger per centage, according to a member of the Tazewell branch of the Agricultural Council of Safety, "Tweets, rats and careless handling, shocking and mutiling, throching, and careless sacking, etc., cause the loss of millions of bushels of grain in the United States every year. Hundreds of bushels of apples and other fruits, vegetables, etc., are allowed to go to waste. It is impossible of course, to eliminate all wastage, but every pound of foodstuffs possible should be saved at all times, but now particularly, when we will soon have five million soldiers of our own to feed, besides furnishing sups to our friends over the seas who must have our help if the war is to be won." RETIN YOUR DAIRY CANS. Straightening and retraining of dairy cans, because of a threatened shortage of cans and actual shortage of tin plate in this country is being advocated by the U. S. Food Administration, working in conjunction with national dairy interests. Investigation shows that cans can be renewed from time to time at from one-fourth to one-third of the cost of new cans. Farmers can help in the conservation movement by making up cars and marking cans to indicate ownership. Railroads have been asked to co-operate by not unloading cans at wrong stations, handling them too roughly, moving them out in bad weather LYNCHING RECORD FOR 1917. December 31, 1917. Dear Sir,—I send you the following relative to lynchings for the year. I find from the records kept by the Division of Records and Research of Tuskegee Institute, Monroe N. Work, in charge, that there were 38 persons lynched in 1917, of whom 36 were Negroes and 2 were whites. Thirty-seven were males and 1 female. Twelve, or a little less than one third of those put to death, were charged with rape or attempted rape. The offenses charged against the whites lynched were: rape and murder; 1; fomenting strikes. 1. The offenses charged against the Negroes were: Attempted rape, 5; rape, 6; murder, 3; killing officer of the law, 2; for not getting out of road and being insolent, 2; attacking women, 2; disputing white men's word, 2; entering woman's room, 2; wounding officer of the law, 1; molesting women, 1; stealing coat, 1; intimacy with woman, 1; killing man in altercation, 1; accidentally killing child by running automobile over it, 1; vagrancy, 1; wounding and robbing a man, 1; attacking an officer of the law, 1; opposition to war graff, 1; insulting girls, 1; writing insolent letter, 1. The states in which lynchings occurred and number in each state were as follows: Alabama, 4; Arkansas, 4; Arizona, 1; Florida, 1; Georgia, 6; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana, 6; Mississippi, 1; Montana, 1; Oklahoma, 1; South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 3; Texas, 6; Virginia, 1; Wyoming, 1. Very truly yours, R. R. MOTON, Principal. 'SAVE BACON UNTIL BERLIN IS TAKEN This descent mean you are to store it. It means that you must use something else in place of bacon for a bread-relish. Try hash for breakfast instead of bacon. Make it of left over meats, tomatoes, potatoes, with a spice of onion. Bacon never made a bigger hit with the family than a well-made hash served with batter-bread. All the blood, all the heroism, all the munitions and all the money in the world will not win this war unless our soldiers, our sailors and our fighting associates, are fed. They will not be fed, this terrible sacrifice of blood and money will be in vain, and the cause of democracy will be deated, unless every person, in every home, every day, guards the nation's supply of Wheat, Beef, Pork, Fats and Sugars. Are You Doing Your Share? PLAN A WAR-TIME COOK BOOK. The Food Administration is asking the old time as well as the brand new housekeeper to scrap her old ideas and forget her old habits of housekeeping, together with those she may have acquired from "before the war" sources. Nothing is as usual. Nothing is as it was before the war. "Serap your old-time kitchen ideas too," pleads the Food Administration, and adventure into the realm of food. It will be a voyage of discovery for even good cooks. There are so many new things to eat and so many ways of preparing familiar foods. "People are afraid to try new moths and new dishes. Don't be one of these people." The housekeeper who is young enough to learn will have some fun getting old recipes down to fighting trim. She will find her best material though, in the recipes for war dishes that are constantly appearing in mag and newspapers. Most of this material is prepared by experts in colleges and experiment stations and is also too valuable to throw aside. Perhaps the best device for keep it in the office is a small filing cabinet arranged like a card index. A small wooden box or even a pasteboard box will do for the file. The recipes can be written or pasted on cards, with a guide card carrying the index heading to separate groups. The most important group in this war-time cook-book will be meat substitutes. Here will be placed substanual dishes that furnish muscle building food. These will include combination of eggs, cheese, beans, nuts and meat with potatoes, rice and hominy. Other headings might be sugar-saving desserts, war-breads and war-cakes. This collection should not be made as a curiosity, but as an every day aid in solving the problem that confronts every American housekeeper, and a practical help in carrying out the food pledge. The selection of recipes should be determined by the resources of the locality and the needs of the individual home. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA WHOLESALE FOOD HANDLERS ARE DEPRIVED OF LICENSE. The United States Food Administration announces that Lester Bros., wholesale food handlers of Newport News Va. have been deceived of their license and forbidden to deal in any commodities covered by the Food Control Act. The specific complaint brought out in their hearing was that Lester Bros., had refused consignments of potatoes, allowing them to deteriorate in the freight yards and incidentally add to railroad congestion. They had also refused a carload of onions which they had ordered from a firm in Minneapolis. It appears that Lester Bros., could have disposed of these vegetables at small loss, Rather than shoulder that loss, how ever, they threw them back upon the consigners. Boys and Girls, Look! Do you know you are to have your best chance for War Service this month? Everybody, children and grown ups, like candy. This is the mouth everybody eats candy and many people make it in their homes. But this year everything is different. We are at war. We shall celebrate Christmas but in a different way. We shall want sweets for Christmas, but they must be different. We must save our sugar to send abroad to the people who have only what we give them, and ourselves enjoy sweets made of nuts, raisins, dates, figs and so on, combined with syrups molasses or maple sugar. Already many of the American sol Christmas and by many a good time and big dinners have been outlined. It is hoped, however, that they will remember the shortage of foodstuffs in the world especially what is required of the United States—the wheat, meat, fats and sugar that we must save from our supplies to send to Europe. Already many of the American olers of both races are in the training camps and soon will take their places in the trenches and battlefields. They are looking to the people at home to see to it that they are fed and well cared for. It is impossible for a hungry man to win laurels and that is what is expected of every American who puts on the United States uniform. They are going to make good if you will only do your part. When you begin to prepare for your Christmas dinner be sure you know the number for whom you are to prepare, and cook accordingly. Do not cook for the garbage can but for human beings. The attention of the readers of this paper has been called to the things that they must use sparingly. They all know by this time, and it is only added now as a reminder that Wheat meat, especially pork and pork pro duces, sugar, fats, the stuff that must go to feed the soldiers, are to be par taken of sparingly and other things substituted for the Christmas celc bration. Let your dinner be substan tial, and have plenty for all. Use as much local stuff as possible. The Christmas turkey and goose will help to save red meats to send to Europe. Turkey, chickens, fish, will add many things you can make out of corn meal for your guests. It is possible to make light bread out of it. Let the American people not waste because it is Christmas for the war is going right on, and the soldiers must be fed. Here are some of the ways to help your boy who is at the front. We are proud of the boys who have gone to the front to make great sacrifices for us. What sacrifices can we make for them that they may be proud of us? The Government says we can help the boy we love by using less wheat and meat, thereby permitting more to be sent to him. Don't waste food. Serve just enough. Bake, boll, and broil more. Fry less; save fats; save sugar it has a pleasant taste to you, may be, but it is a food that fighting men must have to keep up their strength and energy. The people have learned the war meaning of the conservation of food, but for purposes of making "Food win the war," it is more important that we learn the war meaning of sub situation of other foods for those we must send to the nations associated with us in this war. RONCEVERTE NEWS; Rev. I. H. Carpenter filled his pulpit Sunday and preached a very able sermon. Rev. G. H. Carter has returned to Ronceverte, after visiting relatives and friends at Winchester, Va. Mrs. Etta Green has returned home after spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. L. B. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Justice and Miss M. Falfax have returned to Ronceverte to begin school again. After spending a few days with his parents and friends, Mr. W. A. Eggleston has returned to Charleston, West Virginia. Miss Myrtle Reynolds has been very ill at her home. We hope that she may be able to attend school soon. Mrs. Mary Brinkley is very ill at her home. Mr. Edward Barber has returned home, after spending a few days in Charleston, W. Va. Miss Martha Bouldin, after spending some time at Seabert, has returned home. Miss Augustine Patterson gave a dinner in honor of her brother, Mr. Clarence Earley. The guests present were: Mr. Sandy Hollands, Misses Augustine Patterson, Frances Marchell and Alice Green, Messrs. W. A. Eggleston and Clarence Eldridge. Every one expressed their pleasure of having a nice time. ```markdown ``` IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! WE ARE GIVING AWAY COUPONS FOR EVERY CENT PAID IN MONEY IN THE PLANET OFFICE, ON EITHER JOB WORK OR ON SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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We make this statement in order that you may know and understand that we are well prepared to take care of your orders and deliver to you your work on time. Address JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Richmond, Virginia HEY BULLET SATURDAY...JANUARY 12, 1918 JAMES EDGAR GREGG: PRINCI PAL-ELECT OF HAMPTON. "The new principal, Mr. Gregg, brings to his task the moral courage which made General Armstrong during and the spiritual scent which made Doctor Kissell wise. The friends of the School look with renewed confidence and hope to the beginning of Hampton's second half-century of national service under the leadership of a man so well equipped as Mr. Gregg." With these words George Foster Peabody of New York, senior member of the Hampton Institute board of trustees, introduces Dr. Hollis B. Frissell's successor to the great Hampton family of friends, alumn, workers, and students. TRAINED FOR LEADERSHIP James Edgar Gregg, principal-elect of Hampton Institute, was born in Hartford, Conn., on November 24, 1875. He is the son of James Bartlett and Mary (Needham) Gregg. After attending Cutler Academy in Colorado Springs, he entered Harvard College and received his A. B. degree in 1897. While at Harvard, Mr. Gregg won admission to the scholarship fraternity of Rhi Beta Kappa; was class-day Odist; prepared a dissertation for the college commencement; held important scholarships for two years (1894-95 and 1896-97); and won the Sargent Prize for a "Metrical Version from Horace." For three years after graduation he was an instructor at St. George's School, Newport, R. I. In 1901 he received his Master of Arts degree from Harvard. After spending one year in the Harvard Divinity School, Mr. Gregg entered the Yale Divinity School and, after two years, took his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1903. WORK AS PASTOR In July, 1903, Mr. Gregg was called to be the minister of Pilgrim Memorial Church (Congregationalist) in Pittsfield, Mass., and remained there until 1909, when he was installed in the Kirk Street Church, Lowell, Mass. From 1909 until 1912 Mr. Gregg held this Lowell pastorate. He also devoted himself to the starting and promotion of a federation of the churches of Lowell, including twenty-nine of the Protestant churches and the Greek Orthodox Church. Early in 1912 Mr. Gregg was called to the pastorate of the First Church of Christ (Congregationalist), Pittsfield, and has been there since. This church was organized in 1764. On March 16, 1903, Mr. Gregg married Miss Pauline Pumpelly of Middletown, R. I., who died on May 27, 1911. On June 10, 1914, he married Miss Mary Livingston Himsdale. Mr. Gregg has four children: Elise Pumpelly born on April 3, 1908; James Bartlett, 2d, on September 1, 1909; Theodore Hinsdale, on April 17, 1915; Gerald Hinsdale, on September 3, 1916. SUCCESS QUALITIES Speaking editorially, the Berkshire Eagle of Pittsfield, Mass., says: "Mr. Gregg has intelligence, culture sympathy, and understanding—four attributes the true teacher, to be successful, must possess. "Hampton gives him a larger field for the exercise of initiative than he has occupied before. At his hand is the chance to gain world-wide fame as an educator. "With a free hand, with the earnest and undivided support of those for whom he labors, with a sense of joy and appreciation that it's own individuality—the very best that is in him—is at no point stifled or subdued he will in th's noble position to which duty has called him, give a demonstration of spiritual and intellectual leadership and of concrete achievement that will always be a source of satisfaction to his genuine friends here. "Pittsfield is honored that it should have been visited in the attempt to find a man who would measure up to the Hampton standard—the standard set by General Armstrong and so splendidly sustained by his successor, Doctor Frissell. "To his honor the city will not be insensible. Mr. Gregg will do his best—will give the finest that is in him—and he cannot fail." WM. ANTHONY AVERY. Rev. J. H, Wiley Now Patoring Here We, the officers and members of the First Baptist Church, are glad to announce to the public the settling of our pastor, J. H. Wiley, D. D, whom we called from Ebenezer Baptist Church of Providence, R. I., where he had successfully pastored for nine years. He comes well recommended by the citizens at large in Providence, and especially the Baptist Ministers' Conference and the R. I. Baptist State Convention, both white. Mrs. Wiley is an earnest worker among the women. We hope for them the cooperation and good will of the citizens of Farmville. A cordial invitation is given the public to all services in every branch of the church. For the present, Rev. Wiley's residence will be 109 Virginia Street. P. A. WARD, Chairman of Trustee Board. Belson Jordan, Jr., preached vernon last Sunday night to a very large crowd, considering the weather, and was licensed by the First Baptist Church. Rev. P. M. Robinson, at this writing, is very much improved. Miss Elsie Mae Jordan, the daughter of the distinguished Rev. Dr. Nelson Jordan, was married to Mr. Frank P. Carrel, of Bluefield, W. Va., December 20, and after their bridal trip to Cincinnati, Ohio, they spent the first week's end of the New Year in our town. The happy couple left Saturday for Tazewell, where the bride will finish her third term in the Tazewell graded school. Mrs. P. U. Price and her sister, Mrs. Julia J. Womack, who have been successful teachers in Tazewell for seven years, returned to their schools January 5, after spending two happy weeks at home. We wish for them a happy success in their field of labor. AN WHOLLY UNJUSTIFIABLE SHOOTING. (Richmond Evening Journal.) Stealing chickens is not a capital offense, nor should it be necessary for an officer to fire at an unarmed fifteen-year-old boy suspected of chickens stealing in order to halt him. Yet that is the method Patrolman Cousins, of the First district, took to stop the flight of Harry Gayle Thursday night, who, suspected of wanting to carry off two fowls from the basement of a house in North Thirty-fourth street, tried to elude the officer stationed to effect the had's arrest. Six shots, fired point blank at the frightened youngster, brought him to the ground. "Why did you shoot me?" murmured the boy, with his dying breath. "Why did you run?" retorted the agent of the law. There we have the selfjustification of the policeman, and it falls far short of being convincing. Even if the technical charge against the dead lad should be established as felony, does that justify a full-grown man, who chances to be an officer, in emptying his revolver at, the runaway? It is sad and bad business. A desperate, caught red-handed in playing his nefarious occupation of highway robbery or housebreaking and attempting an escape when surprised no less than a bullet if he started to run, but a fifteen-year-old boy, empty-handed, flushed before he could reach the chicken coop, is surely exempt from a like fusillade of cold lead. That way is butchery, nothing less. The boy of course, had no legitimate business in the basement where the officer was stationed, and the presumption is strong that he was after the chickens, but a human life for a fifty-cent capon is a most uneven swap? If the patrolman had been alert, he might have captured the boy the moment he entered the forbidden premises, and, apparently, he bungled his work, and, folled by the lad's quickness of movement, winged his game on the run. There can be no possible excuse for this inhuman, reproducible act. The officer was in no danger, the boy could not have gone far without being caught, hence the shooting was unpardonable. If the killing had been the nervous blunder of a tyrion on the force it might be more readily understood, although in no sense excusable. That an officer, four years in service, should be guilty of the homicide, hegatens the indignation of the community. The true function of the police is to prevent crime. Reversing this operation by guardians of the peace may well provoke the sternest protest. It is a most unfortunate affair. POLICE GUN-PLAY. (Richmond News-Leader—Jan. 5.) The patrolman who shot and killed a Church boy on Thursday night had no intention to commit murder. That goes without the saying. And as the officer acted in what he doubtless deemed to be the discharge of his duty, he could not even be held for manslaughter. This explains the proceedings in police court this morning. But the absence of any grounds for criminal action against the officer does not preclude the exercise of discipline by the chief. In view of all the circumstances, The News Leader is justified in asking that the inquiry be most comprehensive and that the exact facts be established. Some police officers, like other men, cannot be trusted with firearms. Either because they are nervous, or else because they have exaggerated ideas of their responsibility, some policemen are entirely "too quick on the trigger" and will shoot when there is not the slightest provocation for doing so. Even where such officers intend merely to frighten the fugitive and bring him to a halt, there is always danger that they may be poor marksmen or else, in their excitement, shoot closer to a running man than they may think. We have no place for officers of this stamp on the police force. For that matter, the whole question of a police officer's right to shoot in the direction of a suspect is a very delicate one. There are cases, of course, where failure to shoot may lead to the escape of a very dangerous man; but there are likewise cases where it is better a man to get away than to endanger his life. The case in question seems to be of the latter class, for it appears that the boy whose life was snuffed out was stealing chickens. This is a very troublesome offense, but it is not, of course, one that warrants the taking of life under any conditions, except self-defense. The News Leader would be glad if the mayor would make the hearing of the officer who shot this boy the occasion of a very careful explanation to the police of when they may and may not use their pistols. We have had entirely too much free police gun-play in Richmond and we must put an end to it. WANTED—Bright, Active, Intelligent Men and Women of our race to represent us in every part of the country in a dignified, honorable business where the earnings will be from $75.00 to $150.00 per month. Enclose stamp in reply. Address Manager, Box $54, San Antonio, Texas THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SEVEN Jeffries No. 1 COUGH MIXTURE Our National Government TRADE NO.1 MARK UNION HAS RECOGNIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF LFE Insurance for the National Army to protect dependent widows, children, mothers and fathers, and for the future protection of the living against the heavy toll of Pensions, and will insist on every soldier carrying the protection. 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(Formerly the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race) The Largest and Strongest Negro Life Insurance Company in the World. SUMMER SCHOOL For Progressive Teachers SEVENTEENTH Annual Session JUNE 26—JULY 29, 1916 Easy terms, practical courses, pleasant surroundings. For terms or catalog, address Dr. S. B. Jones, Director. Send #1 and secure lodging in advance. JAS. B. DUDLEY, President Greensboro, N. C. INSURANCE IN FORCE OVER $10,000,000 HOME OFFICE, DURHAM, N. C. DISTRICT OFFICE, 2nd Leigh Streets., C. A. WRIGHT, Superintendent --- BANKING You need not deny yourself of the real necessities of life in order to save. You need not have a large sum of money to open a bank account. Ten cents, Twenty-five cents, Fifty cents or One Dollar will make you a real bank depositor. Of course, it is best to begin saving when you are young—a child, but it is well to save after you are old. Try putting away a little money, even if you must go and get it again. The Christmas Savings Club method is the best one for persons who do not know how to save. If you get Fifteen cents Christmas, spend Ten cents and put Five cents on another card. People who have money do not feel like borrowing money. Times are hard to us all, but they are much harder to those who have no money in bank. You can get a Ten Cent Bank for the asking. People who talk only of living and good times are beyond help. We can advise those who want to prepare for the rainy day. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President Mechanics Savings Bank --- THEY ARE COMING BACK Are you among the number? Whether you live in the City or out of the City, in the State or out of the State, Join The Christmas Savings Club You will want your money next Christmas just as you wanted it this last Christmas. We shall have it ready for you. We mail the checks to you. We Invite You to Join Now. Banking Hours: 9 A.M. to 2 P.M., every Day, but Saturday, then from 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. If you have only ONE CENT, you can join. If you have more than that amount, you can do the same thing. Here are a list of the classes. Join either one, two, three, or all of them. 3 per cent interest allowed on all cards that are kept paid up promptly according to the Rules and Regulations printed on each card. SHOULD YOU CHANGE YOUR RESIDENCE, CALL AND BRING YOUR CARD WITH YOU AND WE WILL CHANGE THE ADDRESS. IF YOU LEAVE THE CITY, THIS CHECK WILL BE MAILED TO YOU. YOU CAN OPEN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT FOR AS SMALL AN AMOUNT AS TEN CENTS. YOU CAN SECURE A TEN CENT BANK TO HELP YOU SAVE YOUR MONEY. IT WILL NOT COST YOU A PENNY AS WE WILL LOAN IT TO YOU. WE WILL LOAN YOU A METAL ONE DOLLAR SAVINGS BANK, IF YOU DEPOSIT AS MUCH AS ONE DOLLAR. WE LOAN MONEY ON GOOD COLLATERAL. WE LOAN ON MORTGAGE SECURITIES. WE WILL CONFIDENTIALLY ADVISE YOU ON FINANCIAL MATTERS. CALL AND SEE THE PRESIDENT. OUT OF TOWN ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. SATURDAY January 12 ONE CENT CLUB You pay One Cent the first week and increase the amount paid on the previous week by just One Cent. The last amount to be paid in next November amounts to just Fifty Cents. If you keep it up, next December, you will receive $12.75 plus the interest allowed you. If you do not keep it up, you will get all that you put into the Bank, even if the amount is only one payment or One Cent. You can join this Club too, so that you can pay the largest amount first and each week the amount of payment will be just One Cent less, until the last payment in November will be One Cent instead of Fifty Cents. TWO CENT CLUB You pay Two Cents in this Club the first week and increase the amount just Two Cents on the amount paid the week before. For example, if you start with Two Cents, the next week you pay Four Cents and the next week you pay Six Cents, the next week you pay Eight Cents and so on until the last week in November, when the last payment will amount to just One Dollar. If you keep up the payments, you will receive a check for $25.50, plus the interest. If you do not keep up the payments, you will receive a check for the exact THE RICHMOND PLANET RE COMING Whether you live in the City State or out of the State, Join Christmas Saving ey next Christmas just as you have it ready for you. We mail in Now. Banking Hours: 9 A. M. Saturday, then from 9 A. M. to T, you can join. If you have mo Here are a list of the classes. cent interest allowed on all to the Rules and Regulations amount that you have paid into the Bank. You can join this Club too, by paying the large amount first and your load will lighten all through the year. For example, you pay One Dollar the first week, Ninety-eight Cents the next week and Ninety-six Cents the next week and so on until the last week in November, when the amount paid will be only Two Cents. FIVE CENT CLUB You pay Five Cents the first week and you pay Ten Cents the second week and Fifteen Cents the third week and so on, increasing the amount paid by Five Cents each week. If you keep this up, you will receive just $63.75 about December 10,1918, in time to make your Christmas shopping. In addition to this amount you will receive three per cent interest on what you have saved. You can start on the large amount first. The last amount paid when you start with Five Cents is $2.50 and if you wish to tackle the big end first and feel the burden grow lighter instead of heavier, you can pay $2.50 the first week, $2.45 the second week, $2.40 the third week and so on until the last week in November, when your last payment will be Five Cents, just as by the other method your first payment was Five ARD WITH YOU AND WE WILL CHANGE THE ADDRESS. IF YOU LEAVE THE CLIENT AS TEN CENTS. YOU CAN SECURE A TEN CENT BANK TO HELP YOU SAVE DOLLAR SAVINGS BANK, IF YOU DEPOSIT AS MUCH AS ONE DOLLAR. MAGE SECURITIES. WE WILL CONFIDENTIALLY ADVISE YOU ON FINANCIAL MOLICITED. SAVINGS BANK, R NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THIRD AND CLAY STS. Vice-President; John T. Taylor, E.R. Jefferson, M. D., R. W. Whiting, J. J. Carter A. D. RICHMOND Virginia Cents. TEN CENT CLUB We have a flat Ten Cents a week Club. You will receive a check next December for $5.00, plus the interest on that amount. Should you fail to keep up the payments you are no worse off, so to speak, for you will receive a check for just the amount that you may have paid in, even if that amount is only Ten Cents. TWENTY-FIVE CENT CLUB You can join the flat Twenty-five Cent Club. You pay Twenty-five Cents each week and if you keep it up, you will receive a check for $12.50. If you find that you cannot keep up the payments, you will receive a check for all that you have paid in. We do not deduct from the amount for the trouble and time we expend in saving it for you. FIFTY CENT CLUB You pay Fifty Cents per week in this Club. You do this every week until the last week in November. About December 10,1918, we will send you a check for $25.00, if you have kept up your payments and in addition will pay you three per cent. interest on the amount. If you fail to keep up the payments, we will send you check for all that you may have paid.